ANGUS: Joe Basill Gets Whacked
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2026 10:09 amANGUS: Joe Basill Gets Whacked
Summer Sunday Reading Series — July 12, 2026
Charlie Angus / The Resistance - July 12, 2026
EXCERPT: "For the last 120 years, the gold mines of northern Ontario have generated enormous wealth. In the first half of the century, they relied on immigrant workers who laboured underground for low pay.
The theft of visible gold, known as highgrading, fuelled a large black-market economy. In some ways, the entire local economy was implicated in the trade of the precious flakes. But moving the stolen gold to larger markets was tightly controlled by the mob.
Everyone knew who worked for the mob in the north. Nobody ever ratted them out.
For this week of our Summer Sunday Reading Series, I want to share a piece I have written on highgrading. A variation appeared in my 2001 book Mirrors of Stone: Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier.
I hope you enjoy. . . . . "
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/joe ... dium=email ]
Summer Sunday Reading Series — July 12, 2026
Charlie Angus / The Resistance - July 12, 2026
EXCERPT: "For the last 120 years, the gold mines of northern Ontario have generated enormous wealth. In the first half of the century, they relied on immigrant workers who laboured underground for low pay.
The theft of visible gold, known as highgrading, fuelled a large black-market economy. In some ways, the entire local economy was implicated in the trade of the precious flakes. But moving the stolen gold to larger markets was tightly controlled by the mob.
Everyone knew who worked for the mob in the north. Nobody ever ratted them out.
For this week of our Summer Sunday Reading Series, I want to share a piece I have written on highgrading. A variation appeared in my 2001 book Mirrors of Stone: Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier.
I hope you enjoy. . . . . "
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/joe ... dium=email ]