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I will admit, there have been times in my life I have suffered from delusions of grandeur. Granted, it was mainly in my youth, when you鈥檙e supposed to have lofty ambitions.

But while I have long since downgraded my definition of success and desire for fame, I am still attracted to the limelight to a certain extent. When documentary filmmakers came to Yorkton at the beginning of this year working on a CBC project called Finding Al, which attempts to track the legendary gangster Al Capone鈥檚 alleged ties to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, I wanted to help.

I scoured our archives for stories about gangster activity and came up with some good stuff, particularly surrounding the gangland style murder of Paul Matoff, a brother-in-law to Yorkton鈥檚 famed Bronfman brothers.

They decided to film in Yorkton This Week鈥檚 basement and I hadn鈥檛 intended to try to be in the film, but while the host Leon Willy and I were discussing the articles I found out later they had been filming.

I have to admit, I was a bit titillated by the prospect of being one of the talking heads in a documentary.

Alas, when I finally got around to watching it last week, I didn鈥檛 make the final cut. Yorkton This Week did, however. There is some great footage of Willy going through our Enterprise archive books in the basement and talking about Matoff.

There is also some B-roll footage of various Yorkton locations.

Terry LeFebvre-Prince, the City鈥檚 historian has some scenes as does our good friend Arliss Dellow.

It鈥檚 always fun to see your town and people you know in a documentary, but that鈥檚 not the only reason to check out this program.

It really is a fascinating exploration of Saskatchewan and Manitoba bootlegging activity during the period of prohibition in the United States.

Was Al a regular visitor to Moose Jaw? Did he show up in places like Watrous and Estevan? Did he ever visit the Bronfmans in Yorkton?

Good documentarians tend not to definitively answer those kinds of questions, but they do present the evidence.

Finding Al is well worth checking out. It can be streamed on CBC.ca.