The Agueci Brothers immigrated from Sicily to Canada following World War II and, operating from a bakery in Toronto, they also started to work for Buffalo boss Stefano Magaddino to control narcotics distribution throughout western New York, the Ohio Valley and Toronto itself. Their heroin contact was the Hamilton boss and Magaddino capo John Papalia. Papalia had connections to the Cotroni Family from Montreal and with the Genovese and Bonanno crime family's of New York. Together with Papalia they ran a branch of the "French Connection", a heroin traffic framework that was controlled by the Corsican mob (near France) which obtained opium base from Turkey and Afghanistan and converted it into heroin in clandestine laboratories in France and Corsica. The Unione Corse had many Italian/Sicilian