DCHP-3

Canadian whisk(e)y

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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whisky distilled in Canada; specifically, blended whisky derived mainly from rye, and called "rye" by Canadians.

Quotations

1821
Your palsied limbs and water eyes . . . your squalid looks and ruined constitutions, may have taught you, to your sad experience . . . that one fourth of the Rum, and one fifth of the Gin and Brandy you have drunk, has been nothing else than Yankee or Canadian whiskey.
1965
At the same time . . . sales of Canadian whisky increased by about 46,000 gallons.