| Founded | March 26, 1992[1] |
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| Founder | Maurice Boucher[2] |
| Founding location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Years active | 1992–2001[3] |
| Territory | Practically exclusive to Quebec with some reported activity in North British Columbia[4] |
| Ethnicity | Mostly Quebeckers and Francophone Canadians |
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| Activities | Drug trafficking, assault, intimidation, protection and murder |
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The Rockers Motor Club, often abbreviated as the Rockers MC, was a Canadian outlaw biker gang and support club for the larger Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.[21]
Lasting from 1992 until 2001, the group played a significant role in the ill-famed Quebec Biker War.[22] Acting not only as a recruitment tool to test the competence of bikers wanting to become Hells Angels, the Rockers Motor Club was also utilized to carry out numerous unlawful objectives of the Angels which included intimidation, violent assaults, and assassinations of their rivals in an effort to help the ladder obtain total control over the nation's illegal drug trade.[21][23]
Prior to the formation of Angels-affiliated Rockers Motor Club in the early 1990s, another biker gang had coincidentally existed in the same area known as the Montreal Rockers Motorcycle Club, also nicknamed "the Rockers". This particular group emerged as a supporter club for the Montreal chapter of the Outlaws MC before eventually working its way up to become their second chapter within the city in 1978.[24]
- ^ "Rockers Montreal Chapter".
- ^ a b "Maurice 'Mom' Boucher, former Hells Angels boss, dies in prison from cancer". Globalnews.ca. July 10, 2022.
- ^ "Picture-Perfect Ending: Canadian Underworld Chief "Picasso" Woolley Walks Free from Prison". The Gangster Report. 11 November 2020.
- ^ "R. v. Lindsay | Jun 30, 2005". www.incjournal.com.
- ^ a b "The Quebec Biker War Timeline: Murder & Mayhem in Montreal in Fight for Biker Kingdom". The Gangster Report. December 2018.
- ^ "The former vice-president of the Rockers was arrested for firearm possession". Toronto Star. 17 August 2021.
- ^ "Death Riders: The Grim Reapers of Laval". AmericanMafia.com.
- ^ "Quebec's biker war started 25 years ago today". Biker News. 13 July 2019.
- ^ Cherry, Paul (Apr 22, 2022). "Man pleads guilty to being accessory after the fact to murder in C.D.N.-N.D.G." Montreal Gazette.
- ^ "Biker war vigilance urged by Winnipeg police". CBC News. Jul 15, 2011.
- ^ "Suspected Hells Angel arrested in Hub assault". Boston Herald. 19 November 2008.
- ^ Cherry, Paul (Jul 13, 2019). "Quebec's biker war started 25 years ago today". Montreal Gazette.
- ^ Turner, James (Apr 4, 2013). "'Elite' bikers from outside Manitoba mixed up in Project Dilemma sting". Winnipeg Sun.
- ^ Cherry, Paul (5 January 2006). The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55490-250-7.
- ^ Winterhalder, Edward; de Clercq, Wil (Apr 30, 2023). The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos - Bikers United Against the Hells Angels. Blockhead City. ISBN 9780989999762.
- ^ "Bisexual biker hit men helped bust the Hells Angels". The Globe and Mail. 26 May 2001.
- ^ Cherry, Paul (Dec 28, 2014). "'Mom' Boucher's boys: Where are the Nomads now?". Montreal Gazette.
- ^ "Paul "Fon Fon" Fontaine".
- ^ Cherry, Paul (Dec 21, 2018). "Slain biker's life had a rough start, violent ending in St-Léonard". Montreal Gazette.
- ^ "Bernier's ex dined in 2006 with loan shark tied to bikers". CBC News. Jun 5, 2008.
- ^ a b "Man who is alleged to be a middleman between Montreal Mafia and Hells Angels denied parole". Biker News. 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Hells Angels vs. The Rock Machine: The War in Quebec". Office of Justice Programs. 1999.
- ^ Lejtenyi, Patrick (27 October 2016). "How the Hells Angels Conquered Canada". Vice.
- ^ Lavigne, Yves (1993). Hell's Angels: "Three Can Keep a Secret if Two Are Dead". Lyle Stuart. ISBN 978-0-8184-0514-3.