and insisted that her mother pull over to that gas station so she could talk to him.
Who knows? [52] Melcher wrote there was an element of self-interest to Guindon's strategy since Satan's Choice was the largest club and his strategy for peace by mutual respect for each other's territories enshrined the dominance of his club by preventing challenges.
[102] While researching the book, Edwards met Guindon and agreed to write his biography. Il peut y avoir un lger dcalage entre les stocks affichs sur notre site et la disponibilit relle du produit en magasin. I'm not going to give them up". I just knew it would mean trouble. Friends from the biker world and Guindon's family have given extensive interviews for Hard Road, including his son, Harley, a convict and outlaw biker himself. In the 1960s, many of the younger people in Toronto embraced a "hip" image, consciously choosing lifestyles that were contrary to the traditional Anglo-Protestant values that had previously defined Toronto. [52], Guindon was described as extremely charismatic and was idolised by his followers. The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. [66] He joined his father who was living in Thunder Bay. [80] In May 1976, Guindon and Templain were convicted of conspiracy to manufacture and sell drugs and were sentenced to 17 years in prison each. "[63] Guindon started receiving sexually explicit letters from a female university student who he had never met as she became infatuated with him after seeing his photograph in the newspapers, and soon he was having sex with her during conjugal visits. [52] Through Satan's Choice and the other Canadian outlaw biker clubs all slavishly copied the American outlaw biker clubs, Guindon was adamant about keeping American clubs out of Canada, arguing the American clubs would destabilize the biker scene and cause too much violence.
[101] In January 2010, the OCC added a number of new clubs such as the Cinco Chagas, 55 V-Twin Cruisers, the Iron Horse, the Iron Dragons and the Messiahs Creed as members. [43] At the same time, Martin K. Weiche, a German immigrant, Wehrmacht veteran and a fanatical Nazi who had grown rich as a property developer in London, Ontario, tried to recruit Guindon and Satan's Choice to provide security at his Nazi rallies, a request that Guindon rebuffed under the grounds that he was a Canadian "patriot". Fuck was I mad. [33] The Ontario outlaw biker subculture was violent, but the violence was generally limited to brawling, and murder was extremely rare in the 1960s. [55] In 1970, Satan's Choice had about 300 members in 12 chapters, making Satan's Choice second largest outlaw biker club in the world, being exceeded only by the Hells Angels. [101] Guindon founded and remains the honorary chairman of the Ontario Confederation of Clubs, a lobby group for motorcycle enthusiasts. [29] Towards the end of the 1960s, Guindon started to move into organised crime, turning Satan's Choice into one of the leading distributors of illegal drugs in Ontario and in Montreal. [56] Faced with a split in his club, Guindon declared that there would be no biker war and threatened to resign if his will was not accepted. [101] In 2010, Guindon was reported to be looking for a ghostwriter to write his autobiography, which he wanted to entitle From Satan to an Angel: Your Side, My Side and the Truth. [78] From within the Millhaven prison, Guindon placed a bounty on McEwen, promising to pay 10,000 dollars as the reward for killing McEwen. [41] Once of formation, the anti-riot equipment became a hindrance instead of a help as the policemen were forced to retreat back to their cars.
[12] Upon first seeing Guindon, Blais recalled saying to her mother "qui est ce mec mignon qui pompe le gaz?"
But I don't think you wanted to cross them". [93] Increasing, Satan's Choice came to dominated by Andre Wateel, the president of the Choice's Kitchener chapter, who was in favor of joining the Hells Angels.
[77], In August 1975, Guindon visited a hunting lodge at Oba Lake in northern Ontario owned by Alain Templain, the president of the Oshawa chapter of Satan' Choice. [73] The way his supposed allies, the Outlaws, poached several chapters away from him while he was in prison caused Guindon to have a lasting grudge against the Outlaws. [27] Guindon followed up his triumph by dictating terms to the Black Diamond Riders, ordering them to stop attacking other clubs and to stick to their territory in Toronto, whose borders were defined by him. His life wasn't all bikes and crime.
He was a dreamer who would prove time and again his ability to act on and achieve his visions.
[15], In 1973, Guindon was approached by the Hells Angels for the first time with the offer to have Satan's Choice "patch over" to become Hells Angels.
[73][78] Found on the island on Oba Lake were 9 pounds of PCP ready to sell and 236 pounds of PCP waiting to be completed. [25], In Satan's Choice, Guindon and the rest of his club professed to reject materialism, claiming that the only possessions they valued were their motorcycles, and maintained that they were rejecting the conformity of Canadian society.
[38] Guindon was eligible for parole, but declined to take it as one of the parole conditions was that he could not associate with criminals, saying: "They're the only friends I have. He was too solid. [17] Starting in 1961, Guindon came to involved in a feud with Harold "Johnny Sombrero" Barnes, the self-proclaimed "Supreme Commander" of the Toronto-based Black Diamond Riders. [11] In November 1961, Guindon married for the first time after his girlfriend Blais became pregnant with the first of his many children, but he continued his womanizing. [7] Guindon's first language is French, but he became fluent in English owning to growing up in Oshawa. The spiritual godfather of Canadian bikers tells the story of his fascinating life. [21] The "Battle of Pebbestone" damaged the prestige of the Golden Hawk Riders, whom came to be called the "Chicken Hawks", and Guindon ended up leaving the club. [81], During his time in prison, Satan's Choice began to fall apart and on 1 July 1977 several Satan's Choice's chapters "patched over" to join the Outlaws. [15] Through bike helmets were not mandatory in Ontario until 1969, Guindon always wore one as his "punch-enhancer". Pour slectionner les magasins Renaud-Bray que vous frquentez le plus souvent. [66] Between JanuaryJuly 1971, Guindon won successively the Ontario Golden Gloves, the Eastern Canadian Golden Gloves and Canadian Golden Gloves tournaments.
Go on a holiday.
[60] Through Guindon was sometimes attacked by other prisoners, he gradually convinced the other inmates that he did not rape a 15-year old.
[62] Paul Henry, the prison psychologist at Kingston said about Guindon: "He was a man's man. [6], As a Catholic and French-Canadian in Ontario, a province that at the time was largely English-Canadian and Protestant, Guindon was constantly involved in brawls while growing up, remembering how "I used to go across the street and fight all the Protestants". [91] By this time, Guindon had been speaking English for so long that his French had become somewhat rusty as he found himself pausing as he searched in his mind for the right words and phrases in French when asking for directions. [19] To humiliate Barnes, Guindon rode up to clubhouse of the Black Diamond Riders with his followers.
Guindon pere also served as a fence for corrupt Oshawa policemen who wanted to sell items that they had stolen while performing their duties.
[2] The Guindon family were itinerant in his early years, living at various locations in Quebec and northern Ontario.
[67] Guindon won a bronze medal in boxing at the 1971 Pan American Games and he was looking forward to boxing for Canada at the 1972 Olympics.
[39] The anti-riot squad of the Ontario Provincial Police showed up in their riot gear and began to advance on the bikers, banging their nightsticks against their shields. [102] In 2017, Edwards described Guindon as: "He's a very human person. [88] In 1988, Lowe described Guindon as living in a middle-class neighborhood of Oshawa and engaged in real estate speculation while also owning a camp in northern Ontario for outlaw bikers.
[94] In December 2000, Guindon and the rest of Satan's Choice went to Montreal to join the Hells Angels. [101], Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent for the Toronto Star, published a biography in 2013 of Lorne Edgar Campbell, a Satan's Choice turned Hells Angel biker.
C.P. Nothing resembling a weapon is allowed". [104] Guindon is at present living in Oshawa with Blais. [14] In 1959, at the age of 17, Guindon joined the Golden Hawk Riders outlaw biker club. [92] In May 1996, the OPP launched Project Dismantle, charging 161 people associated with Satan's Choice with 1,192 violations of the criminal code, mostly relating to narcotics, while seizing drugs with a street value of $1.05 million together with two marijuana labs capable of producing crops with an annual yield worth $13.8 million. [78] The drug network for selling the PCP ranged as far as Florida and the police estimated Guindon was making at least $60 million per month in sales. [92] The use of rocket launchers to attack each other's clubhouses led to an attempt by the mayor of Toronto, Barbara Hall, to ban all outlaw bikers from Toronto. [19] Under the outlaw biker code, cowardice is considered the supreme vice, and for Guindon forcing the Black Diamond Riders to retreat from a fight by confronting them with overwhelming numerical superiority would be far more satisfying than merely beating them up. [92] Guindon, whose Canadian nationalism was described as "almost a mania", repeatedly turned down offers all through the 1990s made by Hells Angels' national president Walter Stadnick to have Satan's Choice "patch over" to the Hells Angels. [82] The charismatic Guindon proved to be the principal focal point of Satan's Choice, and with his prolonged absence the club became plagued by infighting between the chapter presidents. [84] By the late 1990s Guindon was starting to suffer from brain damage caused by his boxing career and power began to slip from his hands.
[88] By the 1980s, Satan's Choice had moved into selling cocaine and a pipeline was opened to move cocaine from Toronto to Alberta, where many oil workers used cocaine to ease the tedium of their jobs. [7] At the Holy Cross Elementary School, Guindon was a poor student who failed at everything. Bernard Diedonne Guindon (born 19 November 1942), better known as "Bernie the Frog", is a Canadian outlaw biker, gangster and former boxer, best known as the founder and national president of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club from 1965 to 2000. [11] Blais was from Montreal, but her mother, dissatisfied with the education offered to girls in Quebec's collges classiques (which only trained girls to be housewives and mothers) had moved to Oshawa in 1958 to give her a "modern" education in English. [97] Guindon recalled: "He promised me five thousands dollars a month and I said no.
[103] On 16 March 2021, Strong was convicted of murdering Hache. [57] On 15 May 1969, he was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to five years in prison. "[54], The Canadian scholar Gordon Melcher wrote: "In a culture where violence, toughness, and assertive masculinity were so highly prized, Guindon succeeded as a leader because he was tougher and smarter than the next guy". [52] Guindon had an obsession with "rats" as he called police informers, and most of the victims of his violence were fellow Choice members he suspected of being informers. [85] Guindon went to Windsor to beat up Bill Hulko, the former president of the Choice chapter who had gone over to the Outlaws in 1977. [51] In August 1968, Guindon attracted national notoriety by holding a bikers' rally in Wasaga Beach that featured a contest that involved having Choice members chase down and run over live chickens with their motorcycles. [41], In 1967, a black outlaw biker from Montreal, Rod MacLeod, contacted Guindon at a biker's convention at Wasaga Beach and asked to form the first Satan's Choice chapter in la belle province. [82] In 1977, Guindon was described in media reports as being furious with Garnet "Mother" McEwen, the man he appointed as interim national president, for having engineered the "patch over". [44] Amid much riotous drinking in a barn, 23 police officers attempted a raid on the Satan's Choice convention about midnight, but were forced to retreat under a shower of empty beer bottles. [54] Melcher by contrast has suggested that Guindon was indeed guilty of rape despite his vehement claims of his innocence, maintaining that the misogynistic tendencies in the outlaw biker subculture strongly encourages violence against women. [18], In 1962, the Satan's Choice club led by Don Norris were forced to disband following attacks from the rival Black Diamond Riders club.
[13], As a youth full of machismo and a rebellious streak, Guindon was fascinated with the outlaw biker lifestyle and purchased a motorcycle which he named the Wild Thing. [74] In 1975, Guindon forged an alliance with the Outlaws outlaw biker club, which is very active in the American Midwest. [30], Later in 1965, Guindon was featured in the documentary Satan's Choice about outlaw bikers directed by Donald Shebib, which made him into something of a celebrity in the Toronto area. [56] Some of the other Satan's Choice chapters favored a biker war while others were opposed. [2] Guindon's father often beat his mother.
[18] With four chapters, Satan's Choice became the largest outlaw biker club in Canada, and Guindon became the president of the new club. [17] Toronto before the 1960s had a very staid image of "Toronto the Good", a city inhabited by hard-working, conservative God-fearing Protestants of British descent, a city that was prosperous, safe and well run, but rather boring. [31]Charismatic and handsome, Guindon was the "star" of the documentary.
[10] Guindon's biographer, Peter Edwards, described him as riding his motorcycle down the streets of Oshawa like "a conquering hero". [73] During his second prison sentence, Guindon used LSD heavily, later saying "I only did it in jail. [70] In December 1971, Guindon was sent to prison for violating his parole conditions by associating with Satan's Choice members.
[56] Guindon followed up his victory by going to Toronto with his followers to beat up and expel what he called the "fight crazy shitheads" from the Toronto chapter who were causing the trouble with the other clubs. [39] Realizing that they were in an untenable situation, the police retreated while Guindon ordered the bikers to charge once he saw the police were out of formation. You are trying to keep your guys together. I didn't know what he meant by 'work with him'.
[3] In his native Quebec, the bars and liquor stores stayed open late, causing Lucienne Guindon to relocate to Ontario, where bootlegging was more profitable.
[94] Wateel started to spend more and more time talking to Stadnick. [95] About his decision to join the Angels despite frequently saying he wanted to remain a member of an all-Canadian club, Guindon stated in 2012: "We had to follow. [102], "Meet the godfather of Canada's outlaw biker club, Satan's Choice", "Accused killer Adam Strong faces 'deep s***' in prison if guilty", Meet the godfather of Canada's outlaw biker club, Satan's Choice, How 25-cent childhood prizefights led to Satans Choice, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bernie_Guindon&oldid=1079451719, Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 March 2022, at 21:28. [54] Guindon explained his sex appeal to women as due to the appeal of the "bad boy", observing that many women in the 1960s-70s were sexually obsessed with outlaw bikers as the ultimate "bad boys", saying: "Maybe they like the wild side. Guindon was frequently beaten by a nun he called "Dirty Gertie". [97] In April 2006, Gault unexpectedly arrived at Guindon's house one evening with a vague offer to pay him 5,000 dollars in exchange for some unspecified work that Gault had planned. He didn't have his balls that fucking day". The spiritual godfather of Canadian bikers tells the story of his fascinating life.You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). [28] The humiliation caused the Black Diamond Riders to lose face and by 1968, what had once been the largest outlaw biker club in Toronto had declined to only 15 members. [65], Guindon was transferred to the minimal security Joyceville Institution, where living conditions were easier than in the Kingston prison. [24] In 1967, Guindon was present at a Satan's Choice field day in St. Catherines attend by other biker clubs as well with a total of about 200 people present. [68] However, his rape conviction made it impossible to join the Canadian Olympic team for the 1972 Olympics as he had hoped, as he was declared to be of a bad character. Guindon was born in Hull, Quebec (modern Gatineau, Quebec) to French-Canadian parents. [23] The success of the Black Diamond Riders lent urgency and appeal to Guindon's plans, and many of the other club presidents who were also threatened by the Black Diamond Riders were interested.
[35]That Guindon and his club were rigidly conforming to the code of outlaw biker subculture that originated in California apparently escaped them.
[73] The lodge was so remote as to be only accessible by plane. Hard Road: Bernie Guindon and the Reign of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club, Disponibilit dans mes 3 magasins prfrs.
[57] Lowe wrote that a number of other men would serve as Satan's Choice national president, but "none of them would ever be as widely acknowledged and respected, and as decisive as Bernie Guindon".
[3], Guindon fils grew up in Oshawa surrounded by criminality and violence, recalling his father as a thuggish man who was very good with fists and whose favorite form of entertainment was watching his sons punch each other out.
I used to hate being on my knees all the time, saying prayers and losing a couple of hours every Sunday". [39] As the anti-riot squad numbered only 100 while the bikers and their girlfriends numbered about 200, the police phalanx found themselves surrounded on the open field. [47], By 1968, the Toronto chapter of Satan's Choice had about 50 members, making it the largest outlaw biker club in Toronto. Take a trip. [98] Despite his mother's protests, he struck with his decision to leave, arguing that he already been to prison twice and that as long as Gault was his chapter's treasurer, it was likely that he would get a third prison sentence. 
Stool pigeon motherfucker". [51], In October 1968, Guindon was charged with the rape of 15-year-old girl in Ottawa, through he still claims his innocence, maintaining that he thought the girl was 18 years old when he had sex with her. The young Oshawa biker radiated energy and self-confidence. He's not straight up and down like her father was. [19] The other clubs were the Canadian Lancers of Scarborough (modern Toronto), the Wild Ones of Port Credit (modern Mississauga) and Throttle Twisters of Preston (modern Cambridge). [89] In the summer of 1989, Guindon together with his right-hand man Lorne Edgar Campbell made a lengthy visit to the Prairie provinces to make alliances with los Bravos gang of Winnipeg and the Grim Reapers of Calgary and Lethbridge. [8] Lucy Guindon found a boyfriend who owned a motorcycle and who allowed his stepson to ride it. "[97] Distrusting Gault, whom he believed was setting up him for something, Guindon decided to retire from the Hells Angels the next day.
[52] To show that he was not intimidated by the Vagabonds, Guindon publicly challenged their president to a fight atop Mount Hamilton, saying: "Let's you and I get it on and we'll solve the problem". [19] Guindon knew from his experience of street fights that there was a strength in numbers and the side that had the most fighters always had the advantage.
[10]As a teenager, Guindon met another French-Canadian teenager living in Oshawa, Suzanne "Nicky" Blais, while working at a gas station, whom he bonded with as he spoke to her in French. ("who is that cute guy pumping the gas?") [53] Guindon continued his womanizing as many women considered him attractive, which amazed him as by his own admission his penis is very small as he recalled it was said by his lovers that he was "hung like a stud field mouse". [77] The Popeyes placed a contract on Guindon's life. [73] Guindon came into conflict with one of his subordinates, Garnet "Mother" McEwen, the president of the Choice's St. Catherine's chapter, who favored "Yankeeization", wanting closer ties with the Outlaws.
"[15] Most recently, Guindon's name has been mentioned in the news relating to the rape and murder of his 18-year old granddaughter Rori Hache in 2017. Guindon described Kingston as a harsh prison where prisoners were not allowed to talk to each other unless a guard was present. [24], In 1965, Guindon founded the Satan's Choice outlaw biker club in Toronto by merging his Phantom Riders of Oshawa with three other outlaw biker clubs based in what is now Cambridge, Mississauga, and Toronto. [9] When Guindon was 15, he came to the defense of his mother who was being beaten by his father, and proceeded to beat up his father in turn. Femmes qui s'engagent sont dangereuses(Les), Service aux entreprises et aux institutions, Soutien technique pour le livre numrique.
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[19], With his numerical superiority, Guindon humiliated the Black Diamond Riders by forcing them to retreat from fights that they knew they would lose. [52] Through Guindon was willing to use violence to achieve his aims, in general he was against biker wars, arguing that the Canadian public would tolerate street fights, but not murder, and that excessive violence would lead to a police crackdown. [23] Guindon asked and received permission from Norris to use the name and patch of Satan's Choice. [34] The unwillingness of outlaw bikers to testify against one another in court following their code made it difficult for the authorities to prosecute them for their frequent street fights, which contributed to their "cool" image as men who successfully broke the law.
[79] Guindon late stated about McEwen: "I couldn't do anything about it. [38]Despite his rape conviction, the handsome Guindon continued his womanizing ways, being ultimately married four times and fathering between 11-16 children (Guindon is not certain how many children he has fathered). [15] In 1969, the Toronto chapter of Satan's Choice became greedy and unwilling to share the drug trade with two other outlaw biker clubs, the Vagabonds and the Black Diamond Riders.
[6] Guindon later defined his attitude towards Catholicism: "There's somebody up there, but I don't know who the fuck He isI'm not at all religious.
[19] The Black Diamond Riders followed this up by attacking the Golden Hawk Riders during a field day in the summer of 1962, beating up the Golden Hawks. [79], After his arrest, Guindon was visited in the Sault St. Marie jail by two Satan's Choice members, Cecil Kirby and Frank Lenti. [1] His mother, Lucy, was an illiterate woman from rural Quebec who dropped out of school in Grade 1 while his father, Lucienne, was a petty criminal from Buckingham, Quebec who worked as a bootlegger. [19] As part of his strategy, Guindon founded a new club called the Phantom Riders, which he became president of. Especially at him [McEwen]. You think you're moving in the right direction, but in a sense you're not because you're taking on somebody else's battle".
[29], The American journalist Mick Lowe described Guindon in the 1960s as: "He was widely respected for his self-discipline, and his athleticism, but was admired in other ways, too. [84], On 19 November 1984, Guindon was released on parole and, despite his parole conditions, resumed his association with his club.
The media has reported rumors in the prisons that Guindon has placed a bounty for a "jailhouse hit" on Adam Strong, the man charged with rape and murder of Hache, with one former prisoner saying: "You cant kill the granddaughter of somebody connected to the Hells Angels. [22], Guindon was furious with this violation of the biker code by the Black Diamond Riders and vowed revenge. [1] In Ontario at the time, bars and liquor stores closed very early, and Lucienne Guindon who ended settling up in Oshawa sold alcohol out of his house to those who wanted to drink past the closing time, charging double the price in the liquor stores.
[86] Putting his boxing skills to good use, Guindon recalled: "I soaked him right in the fucking headHe did nothingI just wanted to see where his balls were. [8] As an young man, Guindon excelled at boxing and ultimately came to be trained by the Canadian heavyweight champion George Chuvalo.
[10] Guindon later recalled about his first time riding a motorcycle that "it was unbelievable", marking the beginning of a lifelong love of motorcycles. [38] Guindon stated: "All I can do is hit the heavy bag, do a lot of leg exercises, work with the weights, and do exercises to strength my stomach.
[78] McEwen, who had long wanted to push Guindon out of the way to pursue "Yankeeization", had informed the police about the drug operation at Oba Lake and when Guindon would be visiting so that the police could arrest him. Bernie always seemed to know how to get things down without ever appearing manipulative. [19] On the field day at Pebbestone Park, Guindon noticed that the Black Diamond Riders were keeping to themselves and were arming themselves with sticks, leading him to predicate violence was coming. Merci de tlphoner la succursale de votre choix avant de vous dplacer. [24] Visitors to the Guindon home were questioned by the police as they entered and left. [60] As Guindon had been convicted of sexual assault against a minor, he was considered to be guilty of a "skin beef" (prison slang for sex crimes against children), making him very unpopular with the other prisoners. [54] Guindon claimed she had engaged in group sex with him and the other bikers, and it was the wife of the homeowner who called the police when she arrived home early to discover that her husband had been unfaithful, accusing all of them of rape.
That tension between the very rough life he was born into and the possibility for success in the straight world (and how aspirations in each fed his success in the other) layer Guindon's story, one of the great untold stories in biker history. [42] Outlaw biker clubs tended to shun non-white applicants, and Guindon was highly unusual in allowing a black man to lead a chapter. [38], The authorities made it clear that they disapproved of Guindon and starting in late 1966, a police cruiser was almost permanently parked outside of Guindon's home in Oshawa as a way of reminding him that the police were watching him. [73] In the summer of 1974, Guindon was released from prison and moved to Thunder Bay.
[38] Guindon stated that as the Canadian amateur light middleweight boxing champion that he would very much like to box for Canada at the 1976 Olympics, but complained that prison was making it difficult to practice. He was also a medalist in boxing for Canada at the Pan Am Games. The outlaw biker subculture came to be seen as a symbol of rebellion with many of the younger people romanticizing the bikers as a symbol of "authenticity", people who were dangerous, but "cool" and "hip" in their rejection of "Toronto the Good" values. [5] Guindon's mother was the main emotional support as he grew up and tried hard to pass on her Catholic faith to her son. [8] Lucienne Guindon abandoned his family shortly afterwards. [84] When Guindon was released early from prison for good behavior in 1984, all Satan's Choice had left were the chapters in Thunder Bay, Kitchener, Oshawa, and Toronto. [57] Accordingly, to Guindon's account, the girl liked to hang around the Satan's Choice's Ottawa clubhouse and during his visit to Ottawa, she invited to him and several other bikers to the house of a man who also associated with Satan's Choice.