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Wolodumir "Walter" Stadnick (born 3 August 1952), [1] also known as "Nurget", is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who was the third national president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Canada. Stadnick is generally credited with turning the Hells Angels into the dominant outlaw biker club in Canada. [2]
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]
Michel "Sky" Langlois (born 2 July 1946) is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who served as the second national president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Canada. A founding member of the Popeyes biker gang, which amalgamated with the Hells Angels in 1977, Langlois was convicted as an accessory to murder in the club's internal Lennoxville massacre of 1985, and later of conspiracy to ...
In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the "H.A.", "Red & White", and "81". [ 10 ] With a membership of over 6,000, and 592 charters in 66 countries, the HAMC is the largest "outlaw" motorcycle club in the world.
Buteau was replaced by Michel "Sky" Langlois as the Hells Angels' national president, who fled Canada to Morocco in 1988 to escape charges of first-degree murder relating to the 1985 Lennoxville massacre. Langlois also began a relationship with Micheline Blanchard, who had been the girlfriend of Buteau before his death. [27]
In July 1983, the Hells Angels national president Yves Buteau established the first Angel chapters outside of Quebec when he persuaded the three-chapter strong Satan's Angels biker gang, based in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and on Vancouver Island, to "patch over" to join the Hells Angels. [26]
The Vancouver Sun newspaper reports that Canada has more Hells Angels members per capita than any other country, including the U.S., where there are chapters in about twenty states. [4] The Canadian Hells Angels have partnered the Medellín Cartel, [5] the Rizzuto crime family, [6] the Sinaloa Cartel [7] and the West End Gang [8] in
In the early 1990s, the Hells Angels national president Walter Stadnick frequently visited Winnipeg to meet with both los Brovos and the Spartans as he sought to play off the two gangs. [1] The journalists Julian Sher and William Marsden wrote that Manitoba was crucial in the Canadian underworld because it was "the axis of distribution for any ...