Research Catalog

Title

Iced : the story of organized crime in Canada / Stephen Schneider.

Author

Schneider, Stephen, 1963-

Publication

Mississauga, Ont. : Wiley, c2009.

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Details

Description

600 p. : ill., map, facsims.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Subjects

• History
• Crime > Canada > History
• Criminals > Canada > History
• Outlaws > Canada > History
• Pirates > Canada > History
• Organized crime > Canada > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Antecedents (1596-1907): Shiver me northern timbers; pirates and privateers of Atlantic Canada -- Outlaws on the Canadian plains; bank robbers, horse thieves, cattle rustlers, smugglers, swindlers, whiskey traders, and other varmints -- Part II. Genesis (1908-1933): The black hand of death; extortion and violence in Canada's early Italian communities -- Canadian vice; dope peddlers, white slavers, and fantan operators -- Speakeasy or die; organized crime in the era of prohibition -- Part III. Ascendance (1934-1984): La Cosa Nostra comes to Canada; the ascendancy of the Italian Mafia in North America -- Âllo police; the Montreal Mafia and other crimes organisés in Quebec -- The undertaker, the three Dons, the enforcer, and other tales of the Mafiosi in Ontario -- Part IV. Proliferation (1985-2006): Challenging the Mafia hegemony; the expansion, proliferation, and internationalization of organized crime -- A strange and terrible Canadian saga; the Hells Angels and other outlaw motorcycle gangs -- Sword of the Triad It's raining corpses in Chinatown! Asian organized crime in Canada -- A different kind of snow; the Colombian Cartels come north -- Return of the Italians; the Canadian connection, redux.

ISBN

9780470835005 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009424500

OCLC

• 370606420
• SCSB-11669859

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library