17Apr23.Jimmy's Phonecall

 17 Apr 1923

Jimmy’s Phone Call while in Ottawa:

Danny O'Bannion, your mob’s crime lord, ordered your boss, Mordecai O’Leary, to check into reports of an airship operation servicing Canada. Danny always likes to quote another famous crime lord:

With his bodyguard 'Nails' standing behind him, Mordecai has tasked you to find out: You know Canada law:

Prohibition was a strange ‘duck’ in Canada: the 1916 Ontario Temperance Act prohibited the sale of alcohol, yet liquor could still be legally manufactured and exported out of Canadian ports. Thus, bootlegger and speakeasies were just as common in Canada as the States.

Through research, you know: Canadian Fruit Farming (rose family): apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, prunes, cherries, apricots, berries. Perfect fruits to make meads and flavored whiskeys. Or at least the sugars for basic whiskey.

Mordecai provided you a contact in Ottawa to see what could be accomplished: 

Rocco Perri is an Italian-born organized crime figure in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is one of the most prominent Prohibition-era crime figures in Canada, and is sometimes referred to as "King of the Bootleggers" and “Canada's Al Capone.”

Once you phoned Rocco and arranged a meeting, you discussed such plans: barrels brought down from Timmins’s lumber mill, filled with Ottawa whiskey, and safely transported across the border without customs inspections. Sure beats the current operation that involves smuggling by ships along the eastern shores subject to the common ‘Nor-eastern’ storms and police raids at the docks!