 The elimination of alcoholic beverages had made a difference in Canadian society.The Ontario Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Trade stated in 1922 that the number of convictions for offenses associated with drink had declined from 17,413 in 1914 to 5,413 in 1921, and drunkenness cases had dropped from 16,590 in 1915 to 6,766 in 1921.By the end of prohibition, nearly three quarters of beer breweries had closed.