DCHP-3

government liquor store

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an outlet for the sale of liquor, beer, and wines, operated by the liquor control board of a province or the liquor commission of a territory.

Quotations

1938
Within the city limits, beer can only be sold in dozens to people with a twenty-five cent permit in the Government Liquor store, where they also sell every other kind of intoxicant.
1966
. . . the tiny weather-beaten, peaked-roofed building sits humbly in the shadow of a shiny Government liquor store. . . .