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Okay, thank you for the post! The jug looks later than the second bottle you posted, but if they were found together may be produced the same time. However, I feel like moonshiners would be extremely cheap and wouldn't be adverse to reusing old bottles.

That jug was definitely made post WWII, you can tell from the bumpy concentric pattern on the base (popular on bottles between ~1945 and 1970). The D-in-a-diamond mark was used by the Dominion Glass Company of Montreal, which lines up with the "Made in Canada" proclamation. Your guess of the 50's sounds right. The "6" on the right of the logo may date it to 1956 according to this page.
https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/DominionGlass.pdf

The second bottle is far more crude in its production. You can tell from the base that it has an asymmetrical glass distribution (only common with early machine-made bottles, e.g 1905-1920). The prominent off-center oval with protruding lines on the base (called a suction scar) also looks like that of an early machine-made liquor flask. Nevertheless, there appear to be few to no bubbles within the glass, which pushes it past 1920. My gut is telling me 1920-1930, but it could just be contemporary with the jug and just made by a glasshouse with old equipment. There's effectively no way of telling since there isn't a makers' mark.

Thank you for the photography collage, you did excellent there and made my job a lot easier.

I'm happy to keep checking this thread if any other anons have heirloom bottles they want dated, or want information about. I have 10+ years of experience bottle dating. My knowledge is shaky pre-1870 (I hardly find bottles that date from before then), but I can try nonetheless.