Street gangs originated in Montreal in
In the 1980's.

Blood (the reds)

The first generation of the Reds was called the Master B in honor of the one who created them, a man named Beauvois. They formed the second generation of the clan, the Bogars.

The Bogars have in turn trained the youngest, the Outlaws. General is part of this generation, the first half-breed. Whites, Latinos and Arabs mixed with blacks, like Quebec immigration.

Crips (The Blues)

On the Bleus side, the first clan was called the Bélanger gang. Their successors took the name of CDP for Crack Down Posse. Then appeared the Crips. Unusually, Emmanuel "Mano" Zéphir, founder of the Crack Down Posse and very influential member of the Blues was a great friend of Beauvois of the first generation of Reds.

The gang war took off between the Bogars and the CDP in the mid-1990s.