Roger "Fon Fon" Fontaine
Dubois Gang
    Roger Fontaine, born in the 1930s, allegedly controlled  many  of the rackets in the Point-Saint-Charles neighbourhood of  Montreal on behalf of the  Dubois Gang.

     Roger Fontaine was  a  one-time  business  agent  for  a  Quebec Federation of  Labour construction union. He was  identified  by  the Cliche Commission  as being the  head of  a  loansharking  enterprise that operated within the union.

     In the 1970s, trouble arose between Fontaine  and the  McSween Gang, a  small  band  involved in  drug trafficking, loansharking, and extortion,  for  dominance  of  the  Point-Saint-Charles  rackets. The McSween Gang wanted  to  seize  control of  the  rackets  from  the much larger Dubois Gang.

     Tensions heated up. In August, 1974, members of  the  McSween Gang surrounded  Fontaine in a bar and gave him  a vicious beating. The next month, one of  Fontaine’s friends, Raymond “Chapeau” Gagné, was killed in a neighbourhood tavern.

     One day in October, Marcel Paradis, a  reputed member of the McSween Gang, was ambushed as he left a bar. The perpetrators, sitting in  a nearby car, were  allegedly  Fontaine  and  associate  Serge “Sardine” Champagne. Paradis exchanged  gun  shots with  the two  but no one was seriously injured. Fontaine  and Champagne would be  arrested for the crime. Champagne was murdered  a few months later.

     Fontaine was suspected of taking part in the  attack that put an end to the Dubois Gang’s war with the  McSweens. On  February 13, 1975, the  eve  of  Saint Valentine’s Day, several  members  of  the McSween Gang, including  reputed  leader  Roger “Le Moineau” Létourneau, gathered  in  a  Brossard discotheque.

     Later that night, three  gunmen  entered  the  establishment  and  started  shooting. Four men were killed, while  another five  lay  injured. Pierre McSween, who survived the war  an turned  informant, would identify Roger Fontaine as one of the three shooters at the discotheque that night. 

     Fontaine was  also  suspected  by  police in the  July 26, 1975 murder  of  truck  driver  Jean-Guy Madore.  He was brought in for questioning but released a few days later because of lack of evidence.

     On February 28, 1976, firemen responded to a mobile home fire in Sherrington, south of Montreal. It took them four hours to  put out  the  blaze. Among the  debris, police found the charred remains of two people, both of  whom were  burned  beyond recognition. One of the bodies was a woman, while  the other was that of Roger Fontaine. He had been shot twice in the head.