Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club

Satan's Choice MC
Founded1965; 59 years ago (1965)
FounderBernie Guindon
Founding locationOshawa, Ontario, Canada
Years active1965–2000
Territory13 chapters in Ontario and Quebec (1977)[1]
Membership (est.)400 (1969)[2]
Leader(s)
ActivitiesDrug trafficking, prostitution, theft, assault, murder
Allies
Rivals
Notable members

Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club (SCMC) was a Canadian outlaw motorcycle club that was once the dominant outlaw club in Ontario, with twelve chapters based in the province, and another in Montreal, Quebec, at its peak strength in 1977. Satan's Choice grew to more than 400 members by 1970,[2] making it the second largest outlaw motorcycle club in the world, behind only the Hells Angels.[3]

The club was involved in the first major outlaw biker conflict in Canadian history, when it engaged the country's second largest club, the Popeyes, from 1974 to 1976. Satan's Choice's power began to diminish during the late 1970s, with some of the club's chapters "patching over" to the Outlaws in 1977.[4] The remaining chapters would eventually become members of the Hells Angels, along with most of the other major outlaw clubs in Ontario, in 2000.

  1. ^ Wolf 1991, p. 333.
  2. ^ a b Lowe 2013, p. 116.
  3. ^ "Meet the godfather of Canada's outlaw biker club, Satan's Choice". CBC Radio. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  4. ^ Wolf 1991, p. 335.