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  2. List of city nicknames and slogans in Canada - Wikipedia

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    "Toronto the Good" from its history as a bastion of 19th century Victorian morality and coined by mayor William Holmes Howland. An 1898 book by C.S. Clark was titled Of Toronto the Good. A Social Study. The Queen City of Canada As It Is. The book is a facsimile of an 1898 edition.

  3. West End Gang - Wikipedia

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    The West End Gang (French: Gang de l'ouest) is a Canadian organized crime group in Montreal, Quebec.An Irish mob group originating from the Irish-Canadian ethnic enclave of Pointe-Saint-Charles in the 1950s, the majority of the gang's earnings were initially derived from truck hijackings, home invasions, kidnapping, protection rackets, extortion, and armed robbery, with its criminal activities ...

  4. Irish Quebecers - Wikipedia

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    Saint Patrick's Day Parade in Montreal. Irish Quebecers ( French: Irlando-Québécois, Irish: Éireannaigh as Québec) are residents of the Canadian province of Quebec who have Irish ancestry. In 2016, there were 446,215 Quebecers who identified themselves as having partial or exclusive Irish descent in Quebec, representing 5.46% of the population.

  5. List of Irish dishes - Wikipedia

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    Picture shows slices of black pudding (dark) and white pudding (light). Boxty. Bacstaí. Finely grated raw potato and mashed potato mixed together with flour, baking soda, buttermilk and occasionally egg, then cooked like a pancake on a griddle pan. Breakfast roll. Rollóg bhricfeasta.

  6. Frank Ryan (gangster) - Wikipedia

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    Conviction (s) Armed robbery (1962) Manslaughter (1965) Armed robbery (1966) Criminal penalty. 15 years' imprisonment (1966) Frank Peter "Dunie" Ryan Jr. (10 June 1942 – 13 November 1984) was a Canadian gangster and the leader of the West End Gang, a Montreal -based criminal organization.

  7. Kings of Coke - Wikipedia

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    Crave. Release. November 7, 2022. ( 2022-11-07) Kings of Coke is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Julian Sher and released in 2022. [1] Based on D'Arcy O'Connor's book Montreal's Irish Mafia, the film is a profile of the West End Gang, an organized crime ring that began in the Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood of Montreal in the 1950s.

  8. Irish Canadians - Wikipedia

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    Irish Canadians (Irish: Gael-Cheanadaigh) are Canadian citizens who have full or partial Irish heritage including descendants who trace their ancestry to immigrants who originated in Ireland. 1.2 million Irish immigrants arrived from 1825 to 1970, and at least half of those in the period from 1831 to 1850. By 1867, they were the second largest ...

  9. Place names in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    They often include forms such as -town, -ton, -ville, -borough, -bury, bridge, mill, castle, abbey, church, etc. However, forms such as hill, mount, mont, wood, bay, brook etc. are not uncommon. Some placenames that seem to come from English are in fact anglicized Irish names modified by folk etymology.