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The Black Diamond Riders last played an important role in the biker world in 1996 when Barnes expelled a number of Black Diamond Riders who had challenged him. [17] The expelled Black Diamond Riders founded what journalist Jerry Langton called the "rather forlornly named" Lost Souls Motorcycle Club of Milton. [18]
Robert Donald "Donny" Petersen (17 April 1947 – 12 December 2021) was a Canadian outlaw biker, writer, and alleged gangster.The author of 21 books, Petersen won the International Book Award in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and served as the national secretary and principal spokesman for the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Canada.
The official, and primary, support club for the Outlaws is the Black Pistons Motorcycle Club, which is active internationally. [73] Other support clubs range from local groups, such as the Undertakers MC in Lexington, Kentucky , [ 74 ] to regional clubs like the Chosen Few MC, which is based in Canada and Upstate New York. [ 40 ]
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 ...
Art Eggleton is the longest-serving mayor of Toronto, serving from 1980 until 1991. Eggleton later served in federal politics from 1993 until 2004, and was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2005. David Breakenridge Read held the post of mayor of Toronto for the shortest period; Read was mayor for only fifty days in 1858.
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On 12 January 2002, a Hells Angels convention in Toronto was gate-clashed by the mayor of Toronto, Mel Lastman, who was photographed shaking hands with an Angel, Tony Biancaflora, and told the media the Angels were "fantastic" for bringing so much "business" to Toronto, saying: "You know, they just a nice bunch of guys". [16]
Phantom Riders president Bernie Guindon subsequently revived the name and patch of the disbanded club as a way to enrage the Black Diamond Riders. [10] Guindon had sought vengeance on the Black Diamond Riders ever since the 1962 brawl known as the "Battle of Pebblestone", where they defeated the Golden Hawk Riders (with Guindon a member at the ...