One Canadian town used Al Capone for marketing purposes

Capone's bootlegging operation most likely made forays into Canada, but despite what the town's marketing materials claimed, one of the places he didn't slip by the border was in the Saskatchewan city of Moose Jaw.

According to a statement posted on the RCMP's website, “In 2000 the town of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, came up with a marketing ploy to attract tourists. They claimed that Al Capone spent time covertly in Moose Jaw during American prohibition using the Moose Jaw tunnels to run his bootlegging business. There is no evidence that links Capone's bootlegging to Moose Jaw, let alone any evidence that he ever set foot on Canadian soil.”

Knight's thoughts on the tunnels have been well documented. In an interview with the Regina Leader Post in 1991, she stated, “As far as I’m concerned it all started with a couple of reporters in a beer parlor about 20 years ago. The idea was to drum up some local interest. Someone said, ‘You know, Al Capone could have come up over the Soo Line and hung out in Moose Jaw.’ So they decided to go along with it. As far as I know, that’s how it started.”