The history of gambling in canada

Canada has, like many other countries, had a love-hate relationship with gambling. After being outlawed in 1892, there started to be a trend towards games of skill rather than games of chance. The betting of money on sports results has always been and remains to this day, illegal except inside a licensed betting establishment.

At the turn of the century, charity raffles and bingo began to become popular. Because the entire amount of money, save for that to pay for a small prize, was donated to charity, the law was amended to allow gambling and betting where the proceeds went to a good cause. Following this a number of “gaming houses” began to open, offering 80% of their revenue as donations to good causes, using the rest to pay for the staff and facilities they used.

As time wore on, more and more gambling became legal. It even became legal to bet on sporting fixtures as long as you weren’t betting on Canadian soil. This meant that residents could ring a bookmaker that was situated in a different country and place their bets with him. To this day, there are still kinds of gambling and betting that are forbidden. Mostly the rule is that gambling of any sort may only take place in an authorised gaming house.

Online casino like MobileCasinoCanada.ca  games get around this by exploiting the loop hole that allows betting as long as the actual transactions do not take place on Canadian soil. Online gambling to this day remains illegal in Canada, but officials are unable to do anything since the law states that the betting may not take place on Canadian soil, and technically it isn’t since all the transactions and exchanges are taking place somewhere else.