Posted By: Dwalin2011
Beginnings of the mafia in Canada - 11/25/13 10:16 PM
While in the USA at the beginning of the century, before the Mafia Commission was formed, there was the so-called "Black hand", a common denomination for extortionist gangs that usually signed the threatening letters with a black hand picture, but what about Canada? Were the Black Hand gangs active there too or was there no significant mafia presence before RIzzuto, Violi and others? What was the situation in the first decades of the century?