Table of Contents

PART I. ANTECEDENTS (1596 - 1907). Chapter 1 - Shiver Me Northern Timbers: Pirates and Privateers of Atlantic Canada. Chapter 2 - Outlaws on the Canadian Plains: Bank Robbers, Horse Thieves, Cattle Rustlers, Smugglers, Swindlers, Whiskey Traders, and other Varmints. PART II. GENESIS (1908 - 1933). Chapter 3 - The Black Hand of Death: Extortion and Violence in Canada's Early Italian Communities. Chapter 4 - Canadian Vice: Dope Peddlers, White Slavers, and Fantan Operators. Chapter 5 - Speakeasy or Die: Organized Crime in the Era of Prohibition. PART III. ASCENDANCE (1934 - 1984). Chapter 6 - La Cosa Nostra Comes to Canada: The Ascendancy of the Italian Mafia in North America. Chapter 7 - Allo Police: The Montreal Mafia and Other Crimes Organises in Quebec. Chapter 8 - The Undertaker, the Three Dons, the Enforcer, and Other Tales of the Mafiosi in Ontario. PART IV. PROLIFERATION (1985 - 2006). Chapter 9 - Challenging the Mafia Hegemony: The Expansion, Proliferation, and Internationalization of Organized Crime. Chapter 10 - A Strange and Terrible Canadian Saga: The Hells Angels and Other Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Chapter 11 - Sword of the Triad. It's Raining Corpses in Chinatown! Asian Organized Crime in Canada. Chapter 12 - A Different Kind of Snow: The Colombian Cartels Come North. Chapter 13 - Return of the Italians: The Canadian Connection, Redux. Glossary. Photos and Illustrations. Index.

About the Author

STEPHEN SCHNEIDER is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. He is, with Margaret Beave, co-author of Money Laundering in Canada: Chasing Dangerous and Dirty Dollars .