Weston Golf and Country Club also runner-up at the 1998 U.S. Mid-Amateur. Sye was made a Life Member of the club for his accomplishments and was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 2016. Since November 1956, the club's curling rink has provided winter recreation to members and their associates. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the club, the 2015 Canadian Amateur Golf event and the 2016 Canadian Mixed Curling event were held at Weston. As of 2018, Weston Golf and Country Club closed its curling club. Weston Golf and Country Club Weston Golf and Country Club is located in Toronto, Ontario. Designed
Whiskey Rebellion Farmers living west of the Appalachian Mountains distilled their excess grain into whiskey, which was easier and more profitable to transport over the mountains than the more cumbersome grain. A whiskey tax would make western farmers less competitive with eastern grain producers. Additionally, cash was always in short supply on the frontier, so whiskey often served as a medium of exchange. For poorer people who were paid in whiskey, the excise was essentially an income tax that wealthier easterners did not pay. Small-scale farmers also protested that Hamilton's excise effectively gave unfair tax breaks to large distillers, most of whom