liquor vote

noun, historical, a vote to determine whether a municipality would allow the granting of licenses to sell alcohol

“It sounds like you were away the time they had the big liquor vote … The people of the municipality had to vote whether or not you can get a license to sell alcohol or liquor, and Kingston, they were dry. Well they could sell beer and wine but not liquor. And then we were the only place on Wolfe Island for a number of years where you could serve liquor. So we had people coming from town and all over to have a drink.”