Iced : the story of organized crime in Canada

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General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Shiver me timbers: pirates and privateers of Atlantic Canada -- 2. Outlaws on the Canadian Plains: bank robbers, horse thieves, cattle rustlers, smugglers, swindlers, whiskey traders and other varmints -- 3. The Black Hand of Death: extortion and violence in Canada's early Italian communities -- 4. Canadian vice: dope peddlers, white slavers, and fantan operators -- 5. Speakeasy or die: organized crime in the era of Prohibition -- 6. La Cosa Nostra comes to Canada: the ascendance of the Italian Mafia in North America -- 7. Âllo police: the Montreal Mafia and other crimes organisés in Quebec -- 8. The Undertaker, the Three Dons, the Enforcer, and other tales of the Mafiosi in Ontario -- 9. Challenging the Mafia hegemony: the expansion, proliferation and internationalization of organized crime -- 10. A strange and terrible Canadian saga: the Hells Angels and other outlaw motorcycle gangs -- 11. Sword of the triad ; It's raining corpses in Chinatown! Asian organized crime in Canada -- 12. A different kind of snow: the Columbian cartels come north -- 13. The return of the Italians: the Canadian connection, redux.