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Square John : A True Story / Tony McGilvary, Marlene Webber.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: HeritagePublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1988]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781487584795
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.10924 19
LOC classification:
  • HV6248.M34 .W433 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: '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.
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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.

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