GreekChat.com Forums  

Go Back   GreekChat.com Forums > General Chat Topics > Chit Chat
Register FAQ Community Calendar Today's Posts Search

Chit Chat The Chit Chat forum is for discussions that do not fit into the forum topics listed below.

» GC Stats
Members: 329,715
Threads: 115,665
Posts: 2,204,937
Welcome to our newest member, sophiaptt543
» Online Users: 1,551
1 members and 1,550 guests
gatordeltapgh
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 06-03-2002, 03:56 PM
AOX81 AOX81 is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cleveland Rocks!
Posts: 5,850
Canada

I was in Windsor, Ontario last weekend and I was looking for a liquor store. I asked a guy where I could find a liquor store and he laughed at me. He said, "are you looking for a corner store like in the US?" and I said, "yes". He said "well there is only one place you can buy liquor and it was probably a good 12 blocks away." My question is: Is it like this all over Canada?

I guess I should have bought the legal limit allowed to take over the border before I left Michigan. Oh well, I guess I'm just spoiled. I have a drive through liquor store less than a mile away from my house. It's great not having to get out of your car.
__________________
ALPHA THETA CHI - FOUNDED 1989 / BETA NU 1996 letters4life
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 06-03-2002, 04:39 PM
Siobhan Siobhan is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Vancouver BC, Canada
Posts: 610
Send a message via ICQ to Siobhan
In BC we have liquor stores and beer & wine stores. The liquor stores are regulated by the BC gov't and aren't open on sundays. As far as I know you can't pick up alcohol at your local corner store. Not sure about the other provs.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 06-03-2002, 04:47 PM
gphi2k2 gphi2k2 is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 145
Ontario is brutal for that. No doubt about it. Quebec is more like the states. You can get booze anywhere there. Here, you can't even get beer in larger quantities than a 6 pack at our liquor stores. you have to go to, yes, you guessed it 'the beer store' to get beer. Pain in the A$$.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 06-03-2002, 10:03 PM
CutiePie2000 CutiePie2000 is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: May 2000
Posts: 5,718
Quote:
Originally posted by Siobhan
In BC we have liquor stores and beer & wine stores. The liquor stores are regulated by the BC gov't and aren't open on sundays. As far as I know you can't pick up alcohol at your local corner store. Not sure about the other provs.

AOX81, in Canada, it is done by province (i.e. "state" regulated)...
Just to further clarify, at the B.C. Liquor Store, you can buy everything: beer, wine, hard stuff (vodka, rum or gin), coolers, etc. There are also some beer and wine stores that only sell the "soft stuff', like Beer, Wine, Coolers, Cider, etc. (No vodka, rum or gin). But no convenience stores with boozey bevvies....

In Ontario (where gphi2k2 lives), the gov't store is called LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) sells the booze.

In Quebec, you can buy beer and wine at the "depanneur" (the convenience store), but again, no "hard stuff"....you have to go to the Gov't Store for that.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 06-03-2002, 11:18 PM
NeonPi NeonPi is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Hometown Calgary!
Posts: 454
Alberta and Manitoba

Following up with Alberta and Manitoba ...

In Alberta, the provincial government de-regulated their liquor/beer stores about 5 years ago. There are now individually owned liquor/beer stores, but grocery stores and drug stores can't sell alcoholic beverages. (They can if the liquor is in a completely separate building)

Sales can be 24/7 - and FYI - drikning age is 18 there...

In Manitoba, the government owns the liquor stores that sell both liquor/beer. There are wine stores as well, but few of those.

They started Sunday opening last summer, and it went so well, it's now year round. It was one of the last to do so in Canada. Drinking age is 18 here as well.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 06-03-2002, 11:52 PM
Thrillhouse Thrillhouse is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Intercontinental Champion
Posts: 2,715
When I went up to London, the beer store there was more like a warehouse, they had displays of empty bottles and cans of beer and you told the worker who had someone roll it out on a roller line. Quite interesting, the lcbo was just like a regular liquor store in the states but talk about crowded
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 11-22-2002, 12:59 PM
MooseGirl MooseGirl is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Canada
Posts: 905
I know this thread is old...but i was born and raised in windsor, so i know all the liquor and beer stores, well alomost....

I can't think of where you were to be 12 blocks from a store....maybe the east end somewhere?

any way, for all you Americans who journey across..

there's a beer store one or two blocks east of the tunnel. there's a LCBO(liquor) about four blocks west on University from the tunnel.

coming off the bridge, go straight 3 lights, liquor on the left (next to wendy's) keep going straight a couple more blocks - beer store on left...

anyway, those are the ones i imagine an American using, so i won't rack my brain trying to think of the others...i know there's another liquor and beer store each on Tecumseh in the east....
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 11-22-2002, 03:20 PM
DeltAlum DeltAlum is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Mile High America
Posts: 17,088
Used to be that you had to go to a state run liquor store in OHIO to get hard liquor.

Don't know if it's still that way or not.

It was a pain.
__________________
Fraternally,
DeltAlum
DTD
The above is the opinion of the poster which may or may not be based in known facts and does not necessarily reflect the views of Delta Tau Delta or Greek Chat -- but it might.
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 11-22-2002, 03:36 PM
BrandiDZ BrandiDZ is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky
Posts: 89
DeltAlum

Its still that way in Ohio. and it stinks because the state run liquor stores keep bankers hours.
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 11-22-2002, 05:05 PM
Lady Pi Phi Lady Pi Phi is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: "...maybe tomorrow I'm gonna settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on."
Posts: 5,713
Send a message via AIM to Lady Pi Phi
I don't have a problem with the LCBO or Beer store. The only problem I have is that if you're in a small town (i.e Guelph) there aren't any LCBOs or Beer store within walking distance. The closest one to my house in Guelph is about a half hour walk for me. It would be nice if I could run across the street to the store and just pick something up . But trust me, no matter where you are in ontario you will be able to find an LCBO or a Beer store...especially in the small towns...I mean what else is there to do?
Reply With Quote
  #11  
Old 11-22-2002, 06:12 PM
Sisterplum Sisterplum is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Tallahassee, Florida, USA and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 346
Send a message via AIM to Sisterplum
In Nova Scotia, getting booze is run by the government.

You have to go to a Nova Scotia Liquor Commission store to get booze....anything and everything. They are the ONLY store allowed to sell alcohol in the province (with the exception of the breweries....which have beer stores attached to them...but they only sell the beer they brew onsite)

Luckily, there are MANY liquor stores in the Halifax Metro area (hee hee....us alcoholic Maritimers!) so you don't have to drive too far to find one! They aren't open on Sundays though (the malls aren't either BTW)

I remember when I was in Quebec City for Spring Break one year (skiing!) all the liquor stores closed at 5pm!!!! We had to resort to cheap wine from the gas station!!!! Arrrgh!
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old 11-24-2002, 04:20 AM
Optimist Prime Optimist Prime is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: somewhere in richmond
Posts: 6,906
chillin' like Manitoba's Climate
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old 11-24-2002, 12:07 PM
Kevin Kevin is offline
Super Moderator
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Posts: 18,668
In Toronto for the Sigma Nu Grand Chapter there was no problem at all locating beer/liquor. From the Royal Fairmont we just went across the street and down the stairs to the liquor store in the train station. Could have sworn they had both beer and liquor (could be wrong). We had a nice room party though. Excellent club scene down there as well.. Somehow a couple guys from my chapter ended up partying with Maxim girls.. Nice place ya'll have!

A city of that size and I had no problem walking the streets in the early morning. I'd need a sidearm if I wanted to do that in a similar size city here in the US.
__________________
SN -SINCE 1869-
"EXCELLING WITH HONOR"
S N E T T
Mu Tau 5, Central Oklahoma
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old 11-24-2002, 05:35 PM
Lady Pi Phi Lady Pi Phi is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: "...maybe tomorrow I'm gonna settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on."
Posts: 5,713
Send a message via AIM to Lady Pi Phi
Quote:
Originally posted by ktsnake
A city of that size and I had no problem walking the streets in the early morning. I'd need a sidearm if I wanted to do that in a similar size city here in the US.
It's all relative. I was born and raised in the Tdot and I wouldn't walk the streets at night by myself...it's not safe. But I go to school in Guelph, a small town and I feel completely safe, but I have people freaking out me when they find out that I walk the streets here by myself at night.

P.S It's so true...you'll never have a problem finding a liquor store in Toronto...and they do sell some kinds of beer

edited for spelling

Last edited by Lady Pi Phi; 11-24-2002 at 05:37 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old 11-27-2002, 01:59 AM
RACooper RACooper is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary, Alberta - Canada
Posts: 3,190
Send a message via Yahoo to RACooper
Quote:
Originally posted by ktsnake
Somehow a couple guys from my chapter ended up partying with Maxim girls.. Nice place ya'll have!
Ahhh... the Brunny So I guess your boys were the somewhat sloppy ones I loved the look on their faces when some of the girls in the bar took their tops off (completely legal here in TO).
__________________
Λ Χ Α
University of Toronto Alum
EE755

"Cave ab homine unius libri"
Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:21 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.