On July 1, 1915, prohibition came into effect in Saskatchewan. It didn't matter that it was against the law to buy, sell or make alcohol. People wanted alcohol and would do anything to get it. "Rum runners" would sell the alcohol across the border to help make money.

People who understood the art would produce their own whisky. They would make the whisky for personal use or to sell it. The people who made the whisky were better known as "Moonshiners." They received this title because all of the operations had to be done in the midnight hours. Each bottle of alcohol was approximately sold for $8. Once the Americans received knowledge of the events taking place in Saskatchewan, they began to want to buy some of the liquor being produced. There were three Canadian products that the Americans discovered, they were Moonshine, home brew and Hooch. The American traders called it "fire water."

In order to get booze across the border they needed young men who had enough nerve to be able to complete the task. These men became known as "rum runners."

There were several different ways that alcohol was transported across the border. These methods worked so well that people saw it as an embarrassment to the law. They brought alcohol across the border using vehicles. There were usually three vehicles involved in this process, one was in the front used as a scout car, the second car carried the liquor and the third vehicle traveled further back and was equipped with a machine gun. Alcohol that was transferred by train was put into box cars labeled as "House-Hold Furniture", machinery or coal. People also brought the alcohol across the border in their loads of grain, straw or coal.

People found that making moonshine was not very difficult at all. During the process of production, barley, hops, sugar and yeast were placed in a closed container and boiled. The steam that rises from the fermented brine, goes through copper pipes placed above and is caught in containers. The product is almost pure alcohol.