There is no way to truly define when and where jazz first sprung to life. The name jazz was originally given to the music that was coming out of New Orleans during the early twentieth century but many of the components that make jazz so interesting can be linked to other cultures and traced

Rum running between the United States and Canada as a result of the U.S. prohibition in 1920

Prohibition in B.C. in 1916 made manufacture of alcohol illegal, but drinking it was not illegal.