Slain Niagara Hells Angels MC President “Truck” McIlquham Got Start As Canadian National Boss Nurget Stadnick’s Bodyguard

May 8, 2025 — When he was beginning his ascent in the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club back in the 1990s, Craig (Truck) McIlquham was Canadian national president Walter (Nurget) Stadnick’s bodyguard, according to court records and RCMP intel documents. “Truck” McIlquham rose to be boss of the Hells Angels MC’s Niagara chapter and Stadnick’s main emissary to Hells Angels shot callers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Alberta. He was killed last month in Burlington, Ontario shot to death leaving a meal with his family in the parking lot of Chinese restaurant. GR sources say police are investigating the theory that McIlquham’s murder was related to a beef with Toronto’s Calabrian mafia, known locally as the Siderno Group.

The low-key and mysterious “Nurget” Stadnick has led the Canadian Hells Angels for the better part of the past four decades, assuming the country’s presidency in 1988. Historians and law enforcement consider Stadnick, 72, personally responsible for spreading the Hells Angels MC brand across Canada and making it the preeminent 1-percent club in the Great White North, taking ’81’ Nation from Montreal to Ontario and then further westward from Manitoba to Alberta and Saskatchewan. During the period of expansion in the late 1980s and 1990s, Stadnick frequently traveled throughout the country to politick and plant seeds for future Hells Angels chapters, trips that McIlquham often accompanied him on, especially in the latter part of that era, according to RCMP surveillance logs.

Stadnick’s Hells Angels invaded the Toronto area en masse in December 2000. Even though he’s from Hamilton, he’s kept his hometown free of an ’81’ chapter for years and instead had the city in the Niagara chapter’s regional territory. McIlquham, 55, allegedly became the president of the Niagara chapter in around 2016 after starting his Hells Angels career in the Windsor chapter, per RCMP intel. He once owned a check-cashing business and was operating a collection of offshore gambling websites with offices in the Carribean. A 2019 indictment charging him with bookmaking and money laundering that would be dismissed before trial tied him to the Siderno Group’s Figliomeni mob crew. That same case featured allegations of a scenario in which McIlquhan sought aid from the Hells Angels in Montreal to move six million bucks in cash from a safehouse in Ontario to a bank account in the Cayman Islands.