Publishers Description
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 In the 19th century, the pirate was superceded by criminal groups who engaged in cattle rustling, liquor smuggling, counterfeiting and government fraud.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.
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Keywords
Black Hand
bookmaking
Canadian crime
cattle rustling
Chinese triads
counterfeiting
crime
Eastern European
fraud
government fraud
Italian Mafia
labor racketeering
liquor smuggling
loan-sharking
Montreal
narcotics
organized crime
outlaw motorcycle gangs
prostitution
South American drug cartels
theft
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