The scam capital of the world

By the 1960s, the Vancouver Stock Exchange was the place to be if you wanted to make money. At the same time, their image as a respectable place of business was starting to crack. Part 2 of 2.

Watch Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/yW5iGLLgzRc

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Sources:
Fleecing the Lamb: The Inside Story of the Vancouver Stock Exchange, A. Griffiths and D. Cruise (1987)
The traders: Inside Canada’s stock markets, A. Ross (1984)
The scam capital of the world, J. Queenan (1989)
Sideshow – The Howe Street Carnival, A. du Plessis (1988)
The Vancouver Stock Exchange: From Bucketshop to World Venture Money Capital, F. Keane (1981)
How Toronto Became the Financial Capital of Canada: The Stock Market Crash of 1929, J. Martin (2012)
The road to hell – How the biker gangs are conquering Canada, J. Sher and W. Marsden (2004)
Combatting Money Laundering in BC Real Estate, M. Maloney, T. Somerville, B. Unger (2019)
Webster! archives
Contact with Craig Delahunt archives
Vancouver Sun archives
Victoria Times Colonist archives
Victoria Daily Province archives
Globe and Mail archives
CBC archives
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward archives

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Sections:
00:00 The wild west
03:20 It’s a party
15:00 The Rabbit
28:44 A bigger boat
41:32 Crime and punishment
48:50 The Scourge of Howe St
53:54 Clean-up crew

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