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"The 6ix" — popularized by rapper Drake, a Toronto native who based the nickname on the shared digits of the 416 and 647 telephone area codes and/or referring to the six districts that make up the present city of Toronto. [179] Created by Jimmy Prime, member of Toronto hip-hop group, Prime Boys. [180] Scarborough (part of Toronto since 1998)
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 ...
The Plateau. Typical residential street in Plateau-Mont-Royal, June 2005. Montreal's trendy and colourful Plateau Mont Royal neighbourhood is located on the twin North-South axes of Saint Laurent Boulevard and Saint Denis Street, and East-West axes of Mount Royal Avenue and Sherbrooke Street. The granite-paved, pedestrian-only Prince Arthur ...
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.
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.
Also known as "full Irish", "Irish fry" or "Ulster fry". Bricfeasta friochta. Rashers, sausages and eggs, often served with a variety of side dishes such as fried mushrooms, soda bread and puddings. Garlic cheese chips. Sceallóga le cáis agus gairleog [ 4] Chips with garlic mayonnaise and melted cheddar cheese . Goody.
Provinces and territories whose official names are aboriginal in origin are Yukon, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nunavut.. Manitoba: Either derived from the Cree word manito-wapâw meaning "the strait of the spirit or manitobau" or the Assiniboine words mini and tobow meaning "Lake of the Prairie", referring to Lake Manitoba.
With an Irish flag overhead and bagpipes playing, three sisters of an Irish-born recipient of the Navy Cross christened a warship bearing his name on Saturday — and secured a promise that the ...