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Nicolo Rizzuto, 86, a great-grandfather who dressed the role of a Mafia godfather with crisply tailored suits and wide fedora hats, died as a mobster on Wednesday when he was gunned down in his Montreal mansion.

The history of the Montreal crime family centers around two Italian crime groups and the men who have led these groups in the Canadian province of Quebec creating a powerful and influential criminal organization that has dominated the Canadian underworld for roughly 8 decades. The "Great Canadian City of Montreal" has been the base of operations for this powerful Italian criminal organization or "crime family" since it's beginnings, more accurately when it was formed in the 1940's, but Montreal's Italian underworld started in the mid to late 1800's like it's American counterpart and continued to grow in the 1920's with the immigration of two European men who carried different Italian decent.

A member of the Rizzuto crime family was gunned down in Montreal.

deuxième victime de la guerre contre le clan Rizzuto pour le contrôle du crime organisé à Montréal

MONTREAL - While theories abound over who is responsible for the latest in a series of murders or disappearances of members of Montreal's once all-powerful Mafia clan