Square John : A True Story /
Webber, Marlene
Square John : A True Story / Tony McGilvary, Marlene Webber. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - Heritage .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. Beginnings: Rejection, Guilt, and Gangs -- 2. Alfred: Training School for Crime -- 3. Detention Barracks: You're in the Army Now -- 4. Life on the Carnival Circuit -- 5. Beachcombing in Vancouver -- 6. Doing Crime, Doing Time -- 7. Incorrigible Crook: Bordeaux and St Vincent de Paul -- 8. From Burwash Prison to Bootlegging, Brothels, and Boosting -- 9. Seven-Year Sentence on a Fifteen-Year Instalment Plan -- 10. A Fugitive Hiding with Gypsies -- 11. Freedom Is a Score: Deciding To Go Straight -- 12. HELP: Finding Jobs for Ex-offenders -- 13. A Critical Partnership: HELP Meets Frontier College -- 14. A Strong Legacy: Tony Leaves HELP -- Epilogue
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'Breaking the law was a reflex in me. It wasn't something I thought about doing or not doing. It was something I simply did. Give me an opportunity -- when I was away from the carnivals -- and I wouldn't know how not to break the law.' A compulsive con turned compulsive crusader against crime. Tony McGilvary emerged from 22 years behind bars to turn his own life around and help other ex-cons get jobs, get straight, and stay off the street.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487584795
10.3138/9781487584795 doi
Criminals--Rehabilitation--Canada.
Ex-convicts--Canada--Biography.
Recidivists--Canada--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws.
HV6248.M34 / .W433 2018
364.10924
Square John : A True Story / Tony McGilvary, Marlene Webber. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - Heritage .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. Beginnings: Rejection, Guilt, and Gangs -- 2. Alfred: Training School for Crime -- 3. Detention Barracks: You're in the Army Now -- 4. Life on the Carnival Circuit -- 5. Beachcombing in Vancouver -- 6. Doing Crime, Doing Time -- 7. Incorrigible Crook: Bordeaux and St Vincent de Paul -- 8. From Burwash Prison to Bootlegging, Brothels, and Boosting -- 9. Seven-Year Sentence on a Fifteen-Year Instalment Plan -- 10. A Fugitive Hiding with Gypsies -- 11. Freedom Is a Score: Deciding To Go Straight -- 12. HELP: Finding Jobs for Ex-offenders -- 13. A Critical Partnership: HELP Meets Frontier College -- 14. A Strong Legacy: Tony Leaves HELP -- Epilogue
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
'Breaking the law was a reflex in me. It wasn't something I thought about doing or not doing. It was something I simply did. Give me an opportunity -- when I was away from the carnivals -- and I wouldn't know how not to break the law.' A compulsive con turned compulsive crusader against crime. Tony McGilvary emerged from 22 years behind bars to turn his own life around and help other ex-cons get jobs, get straight, and stay off the street.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487584795
10.3138/9781487584795 doi
Criminals--Rehabilitation--Canada.
Ex-convicts--Canada--Biography.
Recidivists--Canada--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws.
HV6248.M34 / .W433 2018
364.10924