Book description
This book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada's Forgotten
Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about
Canadian crimes and criminals -- most of them tales that have been
buried for years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with
robbery and murder committed by the notorious Power Gang. As readers
travel across the country and through time, they will meet the last
two men to be hanged in Prince Edward Island, smugglers who made lake
Champlain a battleground, a counterfeiter whose bills were so good
they fooled even bank managers, and teenage girls who committed murder
in their escape from jail. They will meet the bandits who plundered
banks and trains in Eastern Canada and the West, and even the United
States. Among them were Same Behan, a robber whose harrowing testimony
about the brutal conditions in the Kingston Penittentiary may have
brought about his untimely death in "The Hole"; and John
"Red" Hamilton, the Canadian-born member of the legendary
Dillinger gang.
Running with Dillinger: The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten
Canadian Outlaws is a must for any Canadian history collection who wants
a look at Canadas famous lawbreakers and hoodlums - and for anyone who
wants to see the Maple Leaf in a different light. - The Midwest Book
Review June 2008
Edward Butts is the author of several historical
non-fiction books, including SOS: Stories of Survival and
True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries. He is the author of
Idioms for Aliens, a humourous look at English grammar. His
book The Desperate Ones: Forgotten Canadian Outlaws (Dundurn
2006) was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award. Ed lives in Guelph, Ontario.
