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The most important of the Hells Angels chapters in Ontario were the Downtown Toronto chapter headed by John "Winner" Neal, the former president of the Para-Dice Riders, and the Niagara chapter headed by Gerald Ward, [9] As usual with the Hells Angels, a number of puppet clubs were formed such as the Dogs of War club in Niagara Falls and the ...
According to CBC News, the Hells Angels have thirty-four chapters operating in Canada with 1,260 full-fledged (patched) members. [2] According to this article, the Hells Angels had at that time fifteen chapters in Ontario, eight in British Columbia, five in Quebec, three in Alberta, two in Saskatchewan and one in Manitoba.
From 1977 to 1984, the event known in Canada as the First Biker War was raging in Quebec and Ontario. On 17 July 1983, while riding through northern Ontario, Mario Parente happened to see two Hells Angels from Montreal, Michel "Jinx" Genest and Jean-Marc Nadeau, on the bus to Vancouver to attend a "patching over" ceremony to witness the Satan's Angels gang join the Hells Angels. [1]
The Hells Angels Ontario Nomads sought to find a solution to the tensions, Ontario Nomads president, Martin Bernatchez called the Rock Machine and set up a meeting. [148] On April 29, 2016, a group of Hells Angels Nomads, their support club, the Red Devils and associates without status, travelled to Casselman in the early evening for a meeting ...
In July 2001, three members of the Hells Angels were charged with extortion when they attempted to get a $70,000 payment from a business owner. [55] The three men pled guilty to lesser charges. [24] In December 2001, the Hells Angels patched over a dozen more Outlaws in Ontario. Other Outlaws were faced with an ultimatum: switch sides or retire ...
[4] As the result of the massacre with the Toronto chapter of the Bandidos all killed and the Winnipeg chapter all imprisoned was the end of the Bandidos in Canada, leaving the Hell's Angels as the dominant outlaw biker gang in Canada. [163] Edwards stated: "In Ontario, you had the Hells Angels and the people the Hells Angels let exist.
After his release, Del Balso allied himself with Martin Robert and Stéphane Plouffe of the Hells Angels Montreal chapter. [27] In November 2022 and again in January 2023, attempts were made on Del Balso's life as he was in his car. [27] In March 2023, Del Balso was a suspect in the March 15 attempted murder of Leonardo Rizzuto. [26]
Ward's clubhouse was the largest and best defended Hells Angels clubhouse in all of Ontario. [11] Ward's clubhouse was a two-story building that was a direct copy of the Angels' clubhouse in Sherbrooke that stood out in the countryside as the entire building was painted red and white, the colors of the Hells Angels. [11]