Jeff Pearce's irreverent romp through the annals of the history of the English in Canada: * This was the territory that England used as the staging ground for many battles and wars with the French and the Americans * It was an Englishman, John Graves Simcoe, who enacted the first anti-slavery act for the entire British Empire...right here in Canada! * Sir Isaac Brock was a larger-than-life hero of the war of 1812, who dared a duelist to shoot at him from the distance of the width of a handkerchief and who bluffed his way into capturing Detroit * Get to know the fabulous fraud Grey Owl, who didn't want to be an Englishman at all and who started the conservationist movement * Our English connects help explain the October Crisis, an episode in our history still greatly misunderstood * The British North America Act (BNA) governed Canada until our constitution was repatriated in 1981. So make yourself a cup of tea and tuck into an insightful and intriguing chronicle of how there will always be an England...in Canada.

How the English Created Canada: An Intriguing History of Explorers, Rogues, Fur Traders, Pioneers, Prime Ministers, Heroes and Scoundrels (We Created Canada)

History

Jeff Pearce

Americas

Dragon Hill Publishing

In Gangs in Canada, Jeff Pearce draws a portrait of an epidemic spreading across the country and infecting our youth. He shows how police, ex-gang members and organizations are reclaiming our young people and showing them ways out of a violent, doomed lifestyle. This is the most gripping, up-to-date chronicle of what is happening on our streets: -- Trace the rise and fall of Vancouver's notorious Bindy Johal, a vicious crime leader who is perversely idolized by up-and-coming gangsters and wannabes years after he was shot dead. -- Winnipeg's Jessie McKay, once known as a crazy punk rocker chick and muscle for the Indian Posse, has reinvented herself as a caring mother and activist trying to save Aboriginal youth. -- One Ontario neo-Nazi succeeded in manipulating the media beyond his wildest dreams when he fooled Fox News into interviewing him as a ''free-speech advocate.'' -- Meet a Calgary constable who visits gang members and youth at risk and sees their potential with touching humanity. -- Since beating down the Rock Machine and running the Outlaws out of town, the Hells Angels have acquired a near-monopoly over the drug trade in Montreal. -- The Marriott and Melvin families of Halifax have been the source of gang-related activity -- drug smuggling and trafficking -- for many years. Gangs in Canada goes beyond the headlines and news clips. It picks up the discussion over causes, history and media influences and shakes out fresh new perspectives on strategies for intervention.

Gangs in Canada

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Quagmire Press

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