The Nellie J. Banks: [The Life History of a Nova Scotian Schooner with a Newfoundland Crew that Helped Prince Edward Islanders Cope with Prohibition]

As we move towards the end of the twentieth century in these days of freely available alcohol it is hard to believe that only a few decades have elapsed since Prohibition was in force to varying degrees all over Canada and the United States. The illegal importation of liquor into the Maritime Provinces and New England States gave employment to unemployed. They used fishing schooners no longer profitably engaged at their original trade. Of these the Nellie J. Banks may well have been the most famous.