Devil's Disciples Motorcycle Club (Canada)

The Devil's Disciples Motorcycle Club was a Canadian outlaw motorcycle club based in Greater Montreal. Originating in late 1965, the club achieved a short-lived prominence in Montreal and was, for a time, the most powerful motorcycle gang in the city before disbanding in January 1976 as a result of a biker war with the Popeyes, a rival outlaw biker club that would eventually become the first Hells Angels chapter in Canada. The Devil's Disciples gained additional infamy for their assassination attempt on famed French singer-songwriter Johnny Hallyday as well as an internal conflict amongst its members which led to several murders.

Devil's Disciples MC
Patch logo of the Devil's Disciples MC, as sported by one of its members.
FoundedLate 1965
Founding locationMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Years active1965–1976
TerritoryGreater Montreal
EthnicityQuebeckers
Leader(s)
  • Claude Ellefsen
  • Gilles Forget
  • Jacques Mercier
  • José Martindale
  • Guy Filion
  • Jose Martindale
ActivitiesDrug trafficking, intimidation, assault, and murder
Allies
  • Satan's Choice MC
  • Sundowners MC
  • Devil's Disciples MC (Boston, USA)
Rivals

There are several motorcycle clubs which bear the name "Devil's Disciples" but are unrelated to the Canadian group, most notably the similarly spelled American club and well as another club of the same name in the Republic of Ireland - which does not use an apostrophe in its spelling. In addition, there is an active English club known as the Devils Disciple MC which are collectively referred to as “the Devils Disciples”. During the period in which the Devil's Disciples MC of Quebec existed, there was also a one-percenter outlaw motorcycle club in Boston which had the exact same name and spelling as the Canadian club. Unlike those other clubs mentioned, however, the Canadian and Boston groups maintained a close friendship with one another.

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