Anyone care to speculate why the mafia in Canada seems mostly contained to two provinces? Biker gangs spread across the entire nation, but the mob never seemed to move farther west than Ontario.

Back in the 90's you'd hear rumours of the "Corydon Street Mafia" here in Winnipeg all the time... But in retrospect it seems like a rumour that started because a bunch of italian business men hung out at a social club next to one of their bars on Corydon Avenue.

When i got older and went off to university, I looked through hundreds of local papers dating back to the early 1900's trying to find anything printed about any sort of mafia presence in Winnipeg and found virtually nothing. There was one hit that had suspected links to italian OC in Ontario but that was back in the 1980's and it was the only reference I could find.