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Founding. In the late 1940s, Harry Paul Barnes, aka " "Johnny Sombrero"", of Toronto was a member of the Humber Valley Riders Motorcycle Club, but broke away in 1951 to found the Black Diamond Riders. [1] The Black Diamond Riders were notorious as the most violent biker gang in Toronto in the 1950s and Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of ...
Gordon van Haarlem. Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club (SCMC) was a Canadian outlaw motorcycle club that was once the dominant outlaw club in Ontario, with twelve chapters based in the province, and another in Montreal, Quebec, at its peak strength in 1977. Satan's Choice grew to more than 400 members by 1970, [2] making it the second largest ...
Ring of Fire (Northern Ontario) Coordinates: 52°46′0″N 86°3′0″W. The Ring of Fire is a vast, mineral-rich region located in the remote James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario, Canada. Spanning approximately 5,000 square kilometres (1,900 sq mi), the area is rich in chromite, nickel, copper, platinum group elements, gold, zinc, and ...
Thousands of wildfires in Canada this year have incinerated an area larger than Florida, releasing into the atmosphere mo Canada says it can fight climate change and be major oil nation. Massive ...
Canada is being seared by a record-setting wildfire season, with more than 100,000 square kilometres burned, and counting - quadruple the area burned during an average wildfire season.
Victor Diamond Mine. The Victor Mine was the first Canadian diamond mine located in Ontario, and De Beers ' second diamond mine in Canada (after the Snap Lake Diamond Mine). It is located in the Northern Ontario Ring of Fire, in the James Bay Lowlands 90 kilometres (56 mi) west of Attawapiskat in the remote northern part of the province.
As of October 6, 6,551 fires had burned 184,961 square kilometres (71,414 sq mi), [2] about 5% of the entire forest area of Canada, [8] and more than six times the long-term average of 27,300 square kilometres (10,541 sq mi) for that time of the year. [1] As of mid-October, the total area burnt was more than 2.5 times the previous record. [9]
Progress has been made suppressing fires in the Canadian tourist town of Jasper, with the remaining ones expected to be put out by the end of the day, authorities said on Saturday. The fires ...