It’s a fun place to visit and is open even during public holidays. There are three tours available, the iconic prohibition tour, a Cold War-era bunker tour, and early Chinese immigration. Each tour lasts about an hour and there are discounts for doing multiple tours. I recommend only doing the Chicago connection tour because Canada does have a real nuclear-proof Diefenbunker in Ottawa and an immigration museum in Halifax.
Photography is prohibited, so you’ll have to go see for yourself to decide if the urban legends are real. Al Capone was said to have frequented Most Jaw, but nobody has any proof that he was ever there. And while the Chinese community attest to the existence of tunnels and archeological evidence shows there still are old underground connections between buildings, nobody knows if they were used for smuggling booze. If they were, it was a well-kept secret.
What Moose Jaw’s oral history does remember were kids being paid to run booze from a cellar to the nearby train station through a small tunnel and Al Capone’s henchmen hanging around town. The railroad reached Minneapolis and Chicago directly from Moose Jaw.
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