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|  | | | So I have read that for the short peroid of time that canada had prohibition, and for the rather lengthy time that the USA had it, that there was an extensive array of tunnels built to facilitate the alcohol trade. So my point to this post is to ask who has found and explored these? I suspect that all older hotels bars and such have some evidence of these tunnels. I just read a book about the rum runners here in canada and it mentioned a few tunnels...
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<Reply # 1 on 12/22/2005 1:28 AM >
|  | | | An old timer I know told me about some old "Shanghai tunnels" that used to be throughout gas town, one in particular in the basement of the Cambie, downtown Vancouver. He also did say that the last time he saw the entrance it was bricked up. It seems there is always shifty stuff around ports.
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<Reply # 2 on 12/22/2005 11:25 AM >
| | | | I don't think 'all' old hotels had tunnels by any means. Those tunnels are generally only found in towns with more than one hotel along rail routes from the States, and close to the US border. The only ones I know of for sure are in Weyburn and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan which connect right to Chicago on the Soo Line, and they exist in Drumheller, Alberta too (though I don't know if there is a US fed train route there).
The tunnels in Weyburn are very short. One section is filled in with debris from a recently demolished hotel and the rest is used for storage and is pretty crammed (My brother's friend used to own one of the hotel bars and showed us). The ones in Moose Jaw were lost and they built 'replica' tunnels as a tourist attraction. They found the real tunnels sometime in the last two years while digging a basement for a new downtown development. I don't know what happened with those.
I was told about the ones in Drumheller by an oldster (the father of a former boss of mine) who used to play in them when we was a child in the 20's. He and his friends thought it was fun to smash open the whiskey barrels because he was told it belonged to 'bad guys' and it was illegal - he figured he was being a good lil citizen. He used to take liquor bottles the river bootleggers buried on the shore and move them and rebury them so they couldn't be found.
I'd imagine Vancouver and Gastown would have that stuff too, being a port city so close to the US border. Perhaps Vancouver had an 'underground' like Seattle. For some reason, the Chinese railworkers and their descendents liked making tunnels for various commercial purposes.
Do lots or research and talk to really old people about this sort of thing. You may be greatly rewarded.
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<Reply # 3 on 12/22/2005 3:44 PM >
|  | | | I know of One, my Dad has been inside of it recently, but I have not seen it. I am hoping to get an invite one day soon. N.
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<Reply # 4 on 12/22/2005 10:35 PM >
| | | | Me too, hint, hint, wink. wink. eh nobuddy 
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<Reply # 5 on 12/22/2005 11:24 PM >
| | | | theres a 8 mile prohibition tunnel down here in illinois, connects the buildings together
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<Reply # 6 on 12/23/2005 3:05 PM >
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Copy that TL.
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<Reply # 7 on 1/3/2006 6:10 PM >
| | | | One old prohibition tunnel that was sealed for a while but was in plain view was in Rossland on the corner of Leroi and Main. It was a big steel plate that took a lot of people to lift and it was weird! We were kids and I forget where we ended up exiting from. We had no idea what we found. It was not till earlier this year that I figured out what it was for. I don't know if it has been paved over or what has happened.
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