Part I. Antecedents (1596-1907): Shiver me northern timbers; pirates and privateers of Atlantic Canada
Outlaws on the Canadian plains; bank robbers, horse thieves, cattle rustlers, smugglers, swindlers, whiskey traders, and other varmints
Part II. Genesis (1908-1933): The black hand of death; extortion and violence in Canada's early Italian communities
Canadian vice; dope peddlers, white slavers, and fantan operators
Speakeasy or die; organized crime in the era of prohibition
Part III. Ascendance (1934-1984): La Cosa Nostra comes to Canada; the ascendancy of the Italian Mafia in North America
Âllo police; the Montreal Mafia and other crimes organisés in Quebec
The undertaker, the three Dons, the enforcer, and other tales of the Mafiosi in Ontario
Part IV. Proliferation (1985-2006): Challenging the Mafia hegemony; the expansion, proliferation, and internationalization of organized crime
A strange and terrible Canadian saga; the Hells Angels and other outlaw motorcycle gangs
Sword of the Triad It's raining corpses in Chinatown! Asian organized crime in Canada
A different kind of snow; the Colombian Cartels come north
Return of the Italians; the Canadian connection, redux.