Montreal's Irish Mafia

From the early days as hired muscle for the Italian and Jewish mafias, tunneling into bank vaults in the 50s and 60s, to the legendary truck heists and bank stick-ups in the 70s, Montreals Irish mafiaotherwise known as the West End Ganghas managed to pull off some of the most daring and logistically complicated robberies and smuggling operations in Canadian history.

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D'Arcy O'Connor is a veteran journalist, script writer, documentary producer, book author and teacher. He contributed to The Wall Street Journal, the Montreal Gazette, People magazine, National Geographic, and as far abroad as Sydney, Australia's Daily Telegraph. Among his books credits are The Money Pit, The Big Dig, and The Secret Treasure of Oak Island. Among his producer credits are a segment on Oak Island for ABC, The CBC/NFB's Valour and the Horror, winner of three Gemini awards, and CBC/NFB's The War at Sea, a docudrama of Canada's role in the North Atlantic in WWII. He teaches journalism at Montreal's Dawson College.