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9780470835005 English 0470835001 " You're lucky he didn't have an ice pick in his hands. I know how this guy performs." ��������������� -Mobster Paul Volpe speaking about a Buffalo-mafia enforcer named "Cicci" � Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically na�ve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally. � Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized crime has had a significant impact on the shaping of this country and the lives of its people. The most violent and thuggish - outlaw motorcycle gangs like Hells Angels - have been raised to mythic proportions. The families who owned distilleries during Prohibition, such as the Bronfmans, built vast fortunes that today are vested in corporate holdings. The mafia in Montreal created and controlled the largest heroin and cocaine smuggling empire in the world, feeding the insatiable appetite of our American neighbours. Today, gangs are laying waste the streets of Vancouver, and "BC bud" flows into the U.S. as the marijuana of choice. � Organized crime is as old as this nation's founding, with pirates ravaging the east coast, even as hired guns by colonial governments. Since our nation's earliest times, government and crime groups have found that collusion can have its mutual benefits. � Comprehensive, informative and entertaining - as you will discover in the remarkable period pieces devised by the author and the illustrations commissioned specially for this book - Iced is a romp across the nation and across the centuries. In these pages you will meet crime groups that are at once sordid and inept, yet resourceful entrepreneurs and self-proclaimed champions of the underdog, who operate in full sight of their communities and the law. This is the definitive book on organized crime in Canada, and a unique contribution to our understanding of Canadian history., " Youre lucky he didnt have an ice pick in his hands. I know how this guy performs ." -Mobster Paul Volpe speaking about a Buffalo-mafia enforcer named "Cicci" Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naïve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally. Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized crime has had a significant impact on the shaping of this country and the lives of its people. The most violent and thuggish - outlaw motorcycle gangs like Hells Angels - have been raised to mythic proportions. The families who owned distilleries during Prohibition, such as the Bronfmans, built vast fortunes that today are vested in corporate holdings. The mafia in Montreal created and controlled the largest heroin and cocaine smuggling empire in the world, feeding the insatiable appetite of our American neighbours. Today, gangs are laying waste the streets of Vancouver, and "BC bud" flows into the U.S. as the marijuana of choice. Organized crime is as old as this nations founding, with pirates ravaging the east coast, even as hired guns by colonial governments. Since our nations earliest times, government and crime groups have found that collusion can have its mutual benefits. Comprehensive, informative and entertaining - as you will discover in the remarkable period pieces devised by the author and the illustrations commissioned specially for this book - Iced is a romp across the nation and across the centuries. In these pages you will meet crime groups that are at once sordid and inept, yet resourceful entrepreneurs and self-proclaimed champions of the underdog, who operate in full sight of their communities and the law. This is the definitive book on organized crime in Canada, and a unique contribution to our understanding of Canadian history., "Organized crime ... it is just a bunch of people getting together to take all the money they can from all the suckers they can."--Vincent Teresa (deceased) While not a weighty quote, Teresa's words go to the heart of what a crime family is: people who derive profits from illegal activities on an ongoing basis who form a subculture of civil society. Members of organized crime groups believe that only suckers work at legitimate jobs. The deeper sentiment expressed is the rejection of traditional rules, norms and laws that govern civil society. A "wiseguy" is just satisfying the demand for goods and services deemed illegal by an authority they repudiate. Organized crime has a long and notorious history in Canada. The antecedent to today's criminal organization can be traced back to the pirates who operated off the Atlantic coast. In the 19th century, the pirate was superceded by criminal groups who engaged in cattle rustling, liquor smuggling, counterfeiting and government fraud. In the early part of the 2oth century, immigrant Italian communities in southern Ontario were terrorized by the Black Hand, brutish bands of extortionists. During the Prohibition Era, the profits reaped by supplying a thirsty American market catapulted Canadian crime groups to unprecedented levels of sophistication, wealth, power and violence. Beginning in the 1930s, illegal bookmaking was the largest revenue generator for criminal organizations. Montreal emerged as Canada's underworld capital, dominated by an alliance of Canadian and American Mafia Families. Numerous rackets included loan-sharking, prostitution, labor racketeering, fraud and theft. In the 1950s, narcotics became the greatest source of revenue for crime families, and Montreal became the largest single importer of heroin in North America. In the global arena of crime today, Canada is both a branch-plant operation and international headquarters to the Italian Mafia, outlaw motorcycle gangs, Chinese triads, Eastern European crime groups and South American drug cartels. The book is planned in four sections: * Criminal Organizations from Centuries Past: (17th C. to beginning of 20th C.) * The Genesis of Organized Crime in Canada (1900 - 1934) * The Ascendancy of Organized Crime (1930s-1980s) * The Proliferation of Crime: Organized Crime 1980s to Present Day and Beyond, Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naive and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money-a lot of money - illegally.
9780470835005 English 0470835001 " You're lucky he didn't have an ice pick in his hands. I know how this guy performs." ��������������� -Mobster Paul Volpe speaking about a Buffalo-mafia enforcer named "Cicci" � Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically na�ve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally. � Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized crime has had a significant impact on the shaping of this country and the lives of its people. The most violent and thuggish - outlaw motorcycle gangs like Hells Angels - have been raised to mythic proportions. The families who owned distilleries during Prohibition, such as the Bronfmans, built vast fortunes that today are vested in corporate holdings. The mafia in Montreal created and controlled the largest heroin and cocaine smuggling empire in the world, feeding the insatiable appetite of our American neighbours. Today, gangs are laying waste the streets of Vancouver, and "BC bud" flows into the U.S. as the marijuana of choice. � Organized crime is as old as this nation's founding, with pirates ravaging the east coast, even as hired guns by colonial governments. Since our nation's earliest times, government and crime groups have found that collusion can have its mutual benefits. � Comprehensive, informative and entertaining - as you will discover in the remarkable period pieces devised by the author and the illustrations commissioned specially for this book - Iced is a romp across the nation and across the centuries. In these pages you will meet crime groups that are at once sordid and inept, yet resourceful entrepreneurs and self-proclaimed champions of the underdog, who operate in full sight of their communities and the law. This is the definitive book on organized crime in Canada, and a unique contribution to our understanding of Canadian history., " Youre lucky he didnt have an ice pick in his hands. I know how this guy performs ." -Mobster Paul Volpe speaking about a Buffalo-mafia enforcer named "Cicci" Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naïve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally. Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized crime has had a significant impact on the shaping of this country and the lives of its people. The most violent and thuggish - outlaw motorcycle gangs like Hells Angels - have been raised to mythic proportions. The families who owned distilleries during Prohibition, such as the Bronfmans, built vast fortunes that today are vested in corporate holdings. The mafia in Montreal created and controlled the largest heroin and cocaine smuggling empire in the world, feeding the insatiable appetite of our American neighbours. Today, gangs are laying waste the streets of Vancouver, and "BC bud" flows into the U.S. as the marijuana of choice. Organized crime is as old as this nations founding, with pirates ravaging the east coast, even as hired guns by colonial governments. Since our nations earliest times, government and crime groups have found that collusion can have its mutual benefits. Comprehensive, informative and entertaining - as you will discover in the remarkable period pieces devised by the author and the illustrations commissioned specially for this book - Iced is a romp across the nation and across the centuries. In these pages you will meet crime groups that are at once sordid and inept, yet resourceful entrepreneurs and self-proclaimed champions of the underdog, who operate in full sight of their communities and the law. This is the definitive book on organized crime in Canada, and a unique contribution to our understanding of Canadian history., "Organized crime ... it is just a bunch of people getting together to take all the money they can from all the suckers they can."--Vincent Teresa (deceased) While not a weighty quote, Teresa's words go to the heart of what a crime family is: people who derive profits from illegal activities on an ongoing basis who form a subculture of civil society. Members of organized crime groups believe that only suckers work at legitimate jobs. The deeper sentiment expressed is the rejection of traditional rules, norms and laws that govern civil society. A "wiseguy" is just satisfying the demand for goods and services deemed illegal by an authority they repudiate. Organized crime has a long and notorious history in Canada. The antecedent to today's criminal organization can be traced back to the pirates who operated off the Atlantic coast. In the 19th century, the pirate was superceded by criminal groups who engaged in cattle rustling, liquor smuggling, counterfeiting and government fraud. In the early part of the 2oth century, immigrant Italian communities in southern Ontario were terrorized by the Black Hand, brutish bands of extortionists. During the Prohibition Era, the profits reaped by supplying a thirsty American market catapulted Canadian crime groups to unprecedented levels of sophistication, wealth, power and violence. Beginning in the 1930s, illegal bookmaking was the largest revenue generator for criminal organizations. Montreal emerged as Canada's underworld capital, dominated by an alliance of Canadian and American Mafia Families. Numerous rackets included loan-sharking, prostitution, labor racketeering, fraud and theft. In the 1950s, narcotics became the greatest source of revenue for crime families, and Montreal became the largest single importer of heroin in North America. In the global arena of crime today, Canada is both a branch-plant operation and international headquarters to the Italian Mafia, outlaw motorcycle gangs, Chinese triads, Eastern European crime groups and South American drug cartels. The book is planned in four sections: * Criminal Organizations from Centuries Past: (17th C. to beginning of 20th C.) * The Genesis of Organized Crime in Canada (1900 - 1934) * The Ascendancy of Organized Crime (1930s-1980s) * The Proliferation of Crime: Organized Crime 1980s to Present Day and Beyond, Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naive and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money-a lot of money - illegally.