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Author Hunt, C. W. (Claude William), 1931-

Title Whisky and ice : the saga of Ben Kerr, Canada's most daring rumrunner / C.W. Hunt
Published Toronto ; Niagara Falls, N.Y. : Dundurn Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations
Contents Acknowledgements; Prologue; One: Double Death; Two: The Strike and the Piano Player; Three: The Riot Act; Four: Power Boats and Politics; Five: Prohibition Comes to Ontario; Six: Piano Player to Rumrunner; Seven: "In the Event of My Death ... "; Eight: The Crime Boss and the Independent; Nine: Turning the Tide against the Law Breakers; Ten: John Brown Goes to Jail; Eleven: Five Thousand Dollars for Charity; Twelve: Hockey and Homicide; Thirteen: Cross-Border Crime; Fourteen: Bootleggers, Politicians, and Clergymen; Fifteen: Courts and Commissioners; Sixteen: The Quebec Connection
Summary During the 1920s, Ben Kerr was known as the "King of the Rumrunners" and was put at the top of the most wanted list by the U.S. Coast Guard
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Kerr, Ben, -1929.
SUBJECT Kerr, Ben, -1929 fast
Subject Smuggling -- Ontario -- History
Smugglers -- Ontario -- Biography
Prohibition -- Ontario -- History
Alcohol trafficking -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century
Smugglers -- Ontario -- Biography
HISTORY -- General.
Alcohol trafficking
Prohibition
Smugglers
Smuggling
Ontario
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781554883776
1554883776
9781459713505
1459713508