From the Author’s Note For “The Great Liquor War” There are some events related in the “The Great Liquor War” that are recorded parts of history. Canada’s Transcontinental Railway or Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in 1885, and the state of construction in 1884 is roughly as depicted. The last spike was driven at Craigellachie , November 7th, 1885 about two weeks before the end of the story related here. It is also true that the section east of Farwell (present day Revelstoke) contained a steep section of track known as Big Hill. Many people were killed and many trains wrecked on this stretch before it was replaced by a system of tunnels in a figure eight pattern inside the mountain shortly after the turn of the century. Those tunnels were in turn replaced by shorter, straighter versions in the late 1980s. The confiscation of liquor, the confrontation...