Portrait of E. M. Burke
Dimensions25.4 x 20.5 cm
Credit LineGift of Labatt Brewing Company Limited, London, Ontario, 2010
Object number2010.011.5442
Label TextLabatt’s general manager, E. M. Burke, found inventive ways to help the company weather Ontario’s Prohibition from 1916-1927. Using the railway and converted military vehicles, Burke managed Labatt’s bootlegging operations, allowing for sale of full-strength beer. For this reason, Labatt’s was one of the few Ontario breweries to survive these years.
NamePhotograph
After 1946
mid-19th century
March 13, 1958 - 1968
c. 1890