Join Lindsay for the SEASON FINALE of Disturbing the Peace. She tells the tale of prostitution and prohibition with ties to the Peace and beyond. Discussing some of the powerful and notorious women of the era and their ability to "queen-pin" the criminal underground.
Stay Tuned for more content through July and August and Lindsay will be back on the mic on Thursday, September 5th!
GrandeCon:
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Sources:
https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/chungtext/1.0362192#p3z-5r0f:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_and_Great_Waterways_Railway_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sifton
https://www.newspapers.com/article/taber-free-press/125423332/
https://archive.org/details/rumrunners0000ande/page/15/mode/1up?view=theater
https://magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas/culture-society/the-madam-who-shot-the-mountie/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Starkman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Lassandro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_Canada
Book - The Unmentionable History of the West by Nancy Millar
Book - Policing the Central Peace by Irving Kurz
Book - The Rum Runners by Frank W. Anderson
Book - Red Serge and the Stetsons: Hundred Years of Mounties' Memories by Donovan T. Saul
Book - Medicine, Madams & Mounties: Stories of a Yukon Doctor by Allan Duncan
Book - Good Time Girls Of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush by Lael Morgan
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