Parliament ran its own tavern for 49 years. It was a “very natural place,” said John A. Macdonald. It accounted “for the fine, free flow of language in the press and the House,” one senator recalled years afterward. The place was so convivial reformers twice tried to shut it down. Sober and sadder are today’s holidays on Parliament Hill.
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