have always worked hard and risked their lives to make a living. Sometimes, that living was made through less than legal means, but it always seems as though they were filling a need in society.

For a period in the 1930s, these hearty souls were filling the needs of Prohibitions starved residents of the US and later Canada by smuggling rum from Canada and France to the thirsty crowd. The Rum Running years were marked with lost ships, gunfights with the coast guard and incredible wealth to the ships’ owners and crew.

Gordon Stevens was a Rum Runner from Cape Breton in the 1920s and his wife used some of his illicit cargo to make a delicious golden cake soaked with rich, sweet rum. It’s obvious she was the brains in the family as this was the most ingenious means of getting rum to the people under the watchful eye of the authorities.