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Tempted by Timmins' Gold
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In 1911, a northern Ontario boomtown that had sprung up around massive new gold mines was incorporated into a bedroom community called Timmins. In the years that followed, those mines, and the people who worked in them, drove the local economy in more ways than one. And not all of them on the level. According to our guest, theft was so common, it created a booming black market in illicit gold. Well, Timmins' once-thriving underground economy and the people who populated it - the villainous and virtuous alike - are the subjects of a new book, ,City of Thieves,, written by veteran northern reporter Kevin Vincent. While the book is fiction, it's based on real events that he has researched and documented since 1984.
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In 1911, a northern Ontario boomtown that had sprung up around massive new gold mines was incorporated into a bedroom community called Timmins. In the years that followed, those mines, and the people who worked in them, drove the local economy in more ways than one. And not all of them on the level. According to our guest, theft was so common, it created a booming black market in illicit gold. Well, Timmins' once-thriving underground economy and the people who populated it - the villainous and virtuous alike - are the subjects of a new book, ,City of Thieves,, written by veteran northern reporter Kevin Vincent. While the book is fiction, it's based on real events that he has researched and documented since 1984.
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