We are thrilled to announce the Hallowe’en Season is upon us!

With over 500 documented ghost stories, Montreal is easily the most haunted city in Canada, if not all of North America. Haunted Montreal dedicates itself to researching these paranormal tales, and the Haunted Montreal Blog unveils a newly researched Montreal ghost story on the 13th of every month!

This service is free and you can sign up to our mailing list (top, right-hand corner for desktops and at the bottom for mobile devices) if you wish to receive it every month on the 13th!

This Hallowe’en Season we are offering all of our outdoor ghost tours and haunted experiences:

Haunted Downtown Ghost Walk

Haunted Mountain Ghost Walk

Haunted Griffintown Ghost Walk

Paranormal Investigation in the Old Sainte Antoine Cemetery

The Hallowe’en Season schedule is posted below in the Company News section.

We are also offering our Virtual Ghost Tour on demand!

Both public and private sessions are available for all of our tours and experiences!

Lastly, we now have an online store for those interested in Haunted Montreal merchandise. More details are below in our Company News section!

This month we examine the Parc des Vétérans, a haunted location at the foot of the Jacques Cartier Bridge on the Montreal span.

Haunted Research

At the Montreal entrance span to the Jacques Cartier Bridge lies a relatively non-descript greenspace called the Parc des Vétérans. Criss-crossed with busy and winding highway ramps, the park also serves local residents with sporting facilities and a chalet. While it is not Montreal’s most pleasant park, many local residents appreciate it nonetheless in an urban area with few greenspaces.

Some of the features include a basketball court, a rink for roller-blading and winter skating, playgrounds for children and toddlers, a wading pool and a picnic area. According to the City of Montreal: “Parc des Vétérans is a park for relaxing, taking in the natural scenery and enjoying outdoor activities.”

However, according to some local residents the Parc des Vétérans is anything but relaxing – due to incessant paranormal activity and ghost sightings in the greenspace.

One resident, who moved to the Centre-Sud area a few months ago, has had some disturbing experiences in the park. She told Haunted Montreal: “My cats have been traumatized and I have heard unreal things. I am not from this part of town but have lived here since June, and many things that I have heard or felt are not normal to me.”

Another local, who lives across Papineau Street from the Parc des Vétérans explained: “Sometimes at night, all of the local dogs start howling or whining at the same time. When I look out my window, I often see a ghost wandering through the park. This I swear upon. He is definitely a male ghost in older clothing and seems to wander aimlessly, as though he is sad or lost. To make matters worse, a hangman’s noose dangles around his neck. He usually disappears after ten or twenty seconds, then the dogs gradually calm down. Over the years, I have heard rumors that the park was built on an old British military cemetery. That is why it is called the Parc des Vétérans.”

In 1814, the Papineau Military Cemetery was opened for the burials of British soldiers. The following year, on the northern section of the same plot, St. Mary’s Burial Ground was established for non-military Protestants. During the decades when the two cemeteries operated, over 1,000 soldiers and their families were interred there.

Burials included British soldiers who fought in campaigns in Canada and around the world dating back to the 18th century. These military interventions include the Fenian Raids, the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The most famous soldier to be interred was Sir Benjamin D’Urban, commander of the British Forces in North America.

He died in Montreal in 1849 after collapsing into his bed at the hotel where he was headquartered to quell local unrest.

This General is mostly remembered for his frontier policy as governor in the Cape Colony (now South Africa). When stationed there, he use military force to brutalize local populations which opposed colonialism. Notably, he butchered and drove away the Xhosa people and then annexed their territory for the British Empire.

Despite these colonial crimes against humanity, the South African city of Durban was named in his honour.

In Montreal, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, at Montreal’s Papineau Military Cemetery a tall and imposing obelisk was erected over his grave.

One of the strangest interments at Saint Mary’s Burial Ground was that of Patriote Charles Hindelang. Born in Paris, Hindelang was a Calvinist who took part in the French Revolution of 1830, in which he became an officer.

He came to the Americas to do commerce, but was recruited by rebel Ludger Duvernay in the United States to join the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1838 against British rule.

Hindelang fought at the Battle of Odelltown within the Patriote ranks, which was the last battle of the conflict.

The Patriotes were defeated and Hindelang was arrested as he attempted to flee back to the United States. British authorities sentenced him to death at the gallows.

On February 15, 1839 Hindelang was hanged at the Pied-du-Courant Prison in Montreal along with his compatriots. His last words were: “My last goodbye is the old cry of France: Long live freedom! (Vive la liberté!)”

While all of the other executed Patriotes were buried in Saint-Antoine Catholic Cemetery, Hindelang ended up in Saint Mary’s Burial Ground because of his Protestant background. Ironically, he was buried close to the Papineau Military Cemetery, not far from the very British soldiers he had fought against.

In 1869, the burial grounds stopped receiving corpses because the British military departed from the newly-founded “Dominion of Canada”.

The land was expropriated in 1876 to erect a hospital for people suffering from contagious diseases. This improvised facility was constructed over the cemeteries.

In the early 20^th Century, proposals were put forth to convert the old burial grounds into a park. Tombstones were deteriorating as vandals toppled and desecrated them. A Montreal newspaper reported in June, 1912 that the “boneyard had become the resort of idle men and boys, stray dogs and cattle”. It became necessary to station police officers on the burial grounds around the clock to protect the graveyards from further desecration.

Furthermore, sometimes bodies were unearthed accidentally. According to historian and journalist Robert N. Wilkins:

“An acquaintance recently told me that when he was a child growing up in a tenement at the foot of the Jacques Cartier Bridge, he witnessed the accidental unearthing by road workers of a coffin just south of Malo Street. The astonished labourers, having completely extracted the casket, called the authorities, who rapidly arrived to remove this unexpected legacy from Montreal’s past.”

Finally, in 1944 that the City of Montreal purchased the land for $35,000 to complete the conversion of the cemeteries into a park. With the construction of the Jacques Cartier Bridge happening, some of the land was needed for the roads and ramps leading to the span.

A plan was hatched to relocate the military burials to the National Field of Honour, in the West Island suburb of Pointe Claire. During a five-day period, the remains were exhumed and the headstones were transferred to the National Field of Honour.

This ceremony, with full military honours, was overseen by the Last Post Fund. The organization is dedicated “to ensure that no Veteran is denied a dignified funeral and burial, as well as a military gravestone, due to insufficient funds at the time of death”.

Of the 1,797 burials, only 54 headstones could be salvaged. These were placed around the newly-created D’Urban Circle, which features the General’s obelisk in the centre. The transfers were completed to Pointe Claire’s Le Champ d’honneur Cemetery on July 21, 1944.

The remaining bodies in St. Mary’s Burial Ground were left in place, including that of Charles Hindelang. Following the construction of the entrance ramps to the Jacques Cartier Bridge, motorized road traffic began rolling over the Dead.

Today, the Parc des Vétérans has a lot more rolling over the old cemeteries than the cars and trucks coming on and off the Jacques Cartier Bridge. In addition to rollerbladers using the rink, in 2021 the City of Montreal announced an event called “Pumptrack au parc des Vétérans”.

Running from September 8 – October 4, 2021, the “Pumptrack” event featured “a course made up of a series of bumps and turns to be tested by bike, skates or scooters.”

The City of Montreal laid out a 49-meter loop and invited everything from BMX bicycles, skateboards, scooters and even Go-Karts to roll over the old burial grounds.

What the City of Montreal does not realize is that the Dead do not like to be disrespected. Generally, they just want to Rest in Peace.  The paranormal activity and ghost sightings in the Parc des Vétérans is likely related to all of the desecration and ongoing disrespect for those still buried there.

The most prominent theory about the ghost haunting the park is that he is none other than French Revolution hero and Patriote Charles Hindelang. Instead of being transferred to the National Field of Honour, like General D’Urban, his corpse was left abandoned and unmarked.

Ironically, colonial British soldiers are still honoured today, despite their history of brutality, genocide, land-theft and the execution of adversaries.

Meanwhile, many of those who fought for freedom and liberation, like Charles Hindelang, remain in unmarked graves. The fact that leaders of the City of Montreal, past and present, have invited all sorts of traffic to roll over the Dead can only be described as deranged.

The poor corpses lying in the old cemeteries on Papineau Street have to constantly deal with cars, trucks, busses, BMX bicycles, roller-blades, skateboards, electric scooters and Go-Karts constantly rumbling just six feet above their final resting place.

These most unfortunate circumstances are likely the reasons why the Parc des Vétérans is so very haunted. Enter at your own risk!

Company News

Haunted Montreal is thrilled to announce that for the Hallowe’en Season we are offering all of our outdoor haunted experiences:

The Haunted Downtown Ghost Walk

The Haunted Mountain Ghost Walk

The Haunted Griffintown Ghost Walk

Paranormal Investigation in the Old Sainte Antoine Cemetery

The Hallowe’en Season schedule is here:

Both public and private tours are available!

For private tours, clients can request any date, time, language and operating tour. These tours are based on the availability of our actors and start at $170 for small groups of up to 7 people.

Email info@hauntedmontreal.com to book a private tour!

We are also offering our Virtual Ghost Tour on demand in both English and French.

Please spread the word to those who might be interested in a Haunted Montreal experience!

Finally, we have opened an online store for those interested in Haunted Montreal merchandise. We are selling t-shirts, magnets, sweatshirts (for those haunted fall and winter nights) and mugs with both the Haunted Montreal logo and our tour imagery.

Purchases can be ordered through our online store: shop.hauntedmontreal.com

Haunted Montreal would like to thank all of our clients who attended a ghost walk, haunted pub crawl, paranormal investigation or virtual event during the 2020 – 2021 season!

If you enjoyed the experience, we encourage you to write a review on our Tripadvisor page, something that helps Haunted Montreal to market its tours.

Lastly, if you would like to receive the Haunted Montreal Blog on the 13th of every month, please sign up to our mailing list.

Coming up on November 13: Quai de l’Horloge

Clock Tower Quay is a popular tourist destination in the Old Port of Montreal, especially following the installation of an urban beach in 2012. Overlooking the deadly St. Mary’s Current, it is an ideal place to spend a sunny afternoon. However, several people have spotted wet footprints on the quay – even on the hottest days when water evaporates very quickly. Could these paranormal prints be related to a maritime disaster from the city’s distant past?

Donovan King is a postcolonial historian, teacher, tour guide and professional actor. As the founder of Haunted Montreal, he combines his skills to create the best possible Montreal ghost stories, in both writing and theatrical performance. King holds a DEC (Professional Theatre Acting, John Abbott College), BFA (Drama-in-Education, Concordia), B.Ed (History and English Teaching, McGill), MFA (Theatre Studies, University of Calgary) and ACS (Montreal Tourist Guide, Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec). He is also a certified Montreal Destination Specialist.

With over 400 documented ghost stories, Montreal is easily the most haunted city in Canada, if not all of North America. Haunted Montreal dedicates itself to researching these paranormal tales, and the Haunted Montreal Blog unveils a newly researched Montreal ghost story on the 13th of every month!

This service is free and you can sign up to our mailing list (top, right-hand corner for desktops and at the bottom for mobile devices) if you wish to receive it every month on the 13th!

This month we examine the Jacques Cartier Suicide Bridge. With a long-standing reputation as the second most popular “suicide bridge” in the world, after the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Jacques Cartier Bridge is known to be both deadly and haunted. A steel truss cantilever bridge that crosses the Saint Lawrence River from the city to the south shore at Longueuil, it has a tragic history of both suicides and murders occurring on the span. Despite recent improvements, such as an anti-suicide barrier and expensive lighting scheme, there are still suicides every year and tormented spirits are known to haunt the massive structure that crosses the mighty river.

We are also thrilled to announce that our Virtual Ghost Tour has been very successful and we will be offering it all winter long.

We also plan to create other new virtual experiences.

Not only is there a special Friday the 13^th edition tonight, November 13^th, but we will be resurrecting the tradition of Victorian Christmas Ghost Storytelling in a virtual format!

If Covid-19 is ruining your company’s Christmas Party or family plans, please consider joining Haunted Montreal for an entertaining and deranged online haunted experience!

Haunted Research

TRIGGER WARNING: This blog article delves into the topics of suicide, sexual assault and murder. It contains disturbing details.

With a long-standing reputation as the second most popular “Suicide Bridge” in the world, after the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Jacques Cartier Bridge is known to be both deadly and haunted.

A steel truss cantilever bridge that crosses the Saint Lawrence River from the city to the south shore at Longueuil, it has a tragic history of both suicides and murders occurring on the span. Despite recent improvements, such as an anti-suicide barrier and expensive lighting scheme, there are still suicides every year and tormented spirits are known to haunt the massive structure that crosses the mighty river.

The Jacques Cartier Bridge was built by the Dominion Bridge Company, starting in 1925. Constructed with steel at a cost of C$23 million, the work lasted two and a half years. The company used 33,267 tons of steel to build the span, without ever disrupting river traffic.

Originally called the “Harbour Bridge”, it opened to traffic on May 14, 1930. The bridge was re-named the “Jacques Cartier Bridge” in 1934, following a petition from citizens, who attempted to honor the explorer who supposedly “discovered” Canada in 1534, despite the land already being inhabited by Indigenous nations for thousands of years.

This colonizer, who attempted to claim Indigenous lands for the King of France by planting a cross into the ground, is now in disrepute.

Today, the bridge includes a five-lane highway. There are approximately 35.8 million vehicle crossings annually, making it the third busiest bridge in Canada.

Tragically, despite being an excellent piece of transportation infrastructure, the Jacques Cartier Bridge would also become known as a popular “Suicide Bridge.”

The first recorded suicide on the bridge occurred on August 4, 1934. Leopold Gingras, a farmer from a small village outside of Montreal, and his nephew Lucien were driving along the Harbour Bridge.

As they approached the centre span, they saw a man with grey hair who was wearing a dark suit, sitting westward on the outside railing of the bridge. They watched in terror as he slid off. Leopold put his pedal on the gas and drove straight to the police pavilion near the bridge’s southern entrance to report what the man who had slid off the bridge.

Meanwhile, at the same time a pedestrian named Hertel Bachard and a friend were walking north along the footbridge, towards Montreal. They witnessed the man slip from the railing and ran over to see what had happened. Instead of falling into the swirling river below, they saw that the man had somehow managed to grab the outer edge of the bridge with both hands. His legs were dangling as he held onto the steel beam for dear life.

Bachard, who had bolted toward the man to try and save him, recalled: “He looked at me with a blank stare.” As Bachard approached, the man let go and fell almost 50 meters into the churning river. The jumper left behind three newspapers, a straw hat and a note.

The note, crammed into the brim of the hat, read: “Mon nom est Pierre Mitchell”, which means “My name is Pierre Mitchell” in English.

The tragic event received only a few lines in the La Presse newspaper, with the headline “Dramatic Suicide of an Unknown” on the sordid Page 3. This was the place where murders, violent crimes, suicides and other assorted horrors were reported in the newspaper during the era.

The article stated: “Police think he’s a foreigner, or a homeless person.” The article also noted that the body had yet to be recovered, so identity could not be positively established.

A police spokesperson was quoted as saying: “The mystery will probably be solved when they fish out the unhappy man’s cadaver.”

When his body was eventually fished out of the river, the attending coroner, Jean Roussel, learned that Pierre Mitchell was seventy-one years old and had a son named Hugh living on St. Catherine Street.

In an interview, Hugh Mitchell told the coroner: “He wasn’t working, and he was very discouraged and distraught. I have every reason to think that my father must have lost his mental faculties.”

Sadly, the death by suicide of Pierre Mitchell would not be the last. Indeed, when he fell from the bridge in 1934 it signified the beginning of a terrible history that continues to haunt the structure to this very day.

With Mitchell’s terrible fall, and those few inches of type in La Presse, the bridge was forever transformed into something far more sinister. From that point on, the Jacques Cartier Bridge had garnered a dual reputation as both as a gateway to the city – and as a terrifying place to commit suicide.

Since Pierre Mitchell dropped from the span in 1934, over 700 Montrealers have followed suit, earning the Jacques Cartier Bridge the sad reputation of being the second-most popular “Suicide Bridge” in the world.

Downstream from the bridge, bodies found floating in the river or washed ashore are often discovered by boaters, picnickers, police or others wandering the shoreline.

With witnesses rarely present, there is usually no way of knowing exactly how those people met their tragic and watery end.

Making the situation even more dangerous and deranged, the Jacques Cartier Bridge has become a symbol for jumpers in the minds of many Montrealers. Unlike San Francisco’s Golden Gate, which tends to attract all sorts of jumpers from around the world, those choosing the Jacques Cartier to commit suicide have mostly been local Montrealers.

Indeed, the cursed bridge has even spawned an expression used often in the everyday slang of French Montreal. Those having a bad day might say, “Je vais me pitcher du Pont Jacques Cartier” – or “I’m going to throw myself off the Jacques Cartier Bridge” in English.

Research into the topic reveals so many tragic and horrifying stories. So many stories of tragedy can easily be found in newspaper archives or by simple internet searches. Most of the jumpers are linked to cases of Depression and other treatable mental illnesses.

The most infamous jumper was a renowned film-maker named Claude Jutra. He was a central figure in the development of cinema in Quebec and directed two films of tremendous significance for the Quiet Revolution. The first was the autobiographical À tout prendre (1963) and the second was Mon oncle Antoine (1970), which was widely regarded as a masterpiece of Canadian cinema when first released.

A mystery struck the city when Jutra disappeared from his Plateau home just off Saint Louis Square on November 5, 1986. Rumour had it that the filmmaker had been suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and Depression.

On April 19, 1987, the body of the celebrated Quebec filmmaker washed up on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, with a note in his pocket reading “Je m’appelle Claude Jutra” or “My name is Claude Jutra” in English.

An autopsy later confirmed drowning as his cause of death.

Released in 2016, a new biography about Claude Jutra alleged that he had had sexual relations with boys. Yves Lever, a retired cinema professor and movie critic who wrote the biography, told Radio-Canada in an interview that Jutra “liked boys who were 14 or 15 years old and even younger.”

Quebec society was shocked by these allegations that Jutra was a pedophile. It was the explosive first-hand account of a man who said he was sexually abused by Mr. Jutra over 10 years, starting at the age of 6, that triggered a major reaction.

In May 2018, Mr. Jutra’s name was removed from a park, along with a sculpture of a stylized movie camera. Jutra’s name was also scrubbed from the awards gala the Quebec film industry hands out for its own version of the Oscars.

In addition to the hundreds of suicides, there were also terrible murders on the bridge.

On July 3, 1979, teenagers Maurice Marcil (14) and Chantal Dupont (15) were walking home over the Jacques Cartier Bridge after attending a Gérard Lenorman concert at Place des Nations on St. Helen’s Island.

On the bridge, they were confronted by two creepy men named Gilles Pimpare and Normand Guerin. Armed with a knife and a starters’ pistol, the men forced the teens to descend onto a gangway below the bridge. After robbing the boy of the $2 he had in his pocket and sexually assaulting the girl, the thugs strangled them with a rope and then tossed their bodies into the river below.

The teenage victims were initially listed as missing persons, but around a week later their bodies were found washed up on the downstream shore.

The criminals returned to the bridge to commit other disgusting crimes on a later date, but the police were on to them. Investigators had discovered the rope that was used to strangle Dupont and Marcil, which would eventually be used evidence against them in a court of law. The police also pieced together other crimes on the bridge, such as assault and robbery, which they linked to the deranged men.

Following their arrest, they were tried and found guilty after three days of jury deliberations. On October 17, 1984, they both received life sentences for the heinous crimes they had committed on the Jacques Cartier Bridge.

With such a horrible history, how could the Jacques Cartier Bridge not be haunted by some of the unfortunate people who met their fate on the span?

The most common ghost-sightings occur at night and involve cyclists and pedestrians spotting ghostly figures either walking the path or staring into the churning abyss, sometimes even jumping.

According to cyclist Alain Bordeleau, who typically rides his bicycle from Longueuil to his job in Montreal over the Jacques Cartier Bridge, even in winter when it is illegal:

“One night in July, 2015, I had a strange encounter while returning to Longueuil on my bike over the Jacques Cartier Bridge. As I was cycling to the South Shore, I noticed something weird ahead, which had a greenish glow. I put on the brakes and stalled before the situation I saw unfolding. My biked stopped about 20 feet away from it.”

Bordeleau continued: “I could swear that what I saw was a ghost. He was translucent, glowing green, and put ghostly ladder up against the suicide barrier, where it seemed to be held in place, despite being part of the ghost’s accessories. As I sat on the saddle of my bike, I watched him quickly ascend the ladder and jump over the barrier into the St. Lawrence River. The ladder then dissolved into thin air, as if nothing had happened.”

Disturbed by what he had witnessed, Alain Bordeleau continued his bike ride home. So disturbed was he by what he had seen, he could not sleep that night.

Due to the high number of suicides, in 2004 the federal bridge corporation decided to construct a suicide prevention barrier after lobbying efforts by mental health advocates.

With a price tag of $1.3 million, the barrier was raised to 2 meters high, and was fitted with video cameras and emergency telephones.

This preventative strategy managed to reduce the number of jumpers from an annual average of 10 to a lower number of 3.

In an attempt to brighten up the deranged reputation of the Jacques Cartier Bridge, in 2017, then-Mayor Dennis Codere ordered that the structure be retrofitted with a new decorative lighting scheme.

The rationale was to mark both the 150th anniversary of Canada and the 375th anniversary of Montreal. Called “Living Connections”, the signature project was designed and installed over a period of several years by the Montreal-based Moment Factory. The lighting system, which includes varying colors and animations, is presently scheduled to remain active until 2027.

The bridge was first lit up on May 17, 2017. This colonial anniversary marked the same day the French colony of Ville-Marie was established in 1642. The ceremony officially kicked off the festivities for the 375th anniversary of this colonialist event.

Since the intense lighting was installed, ghost sightings have significantly decreased on the span.

The Jacques Cartier Bridge is, without a doubt, one of the most cursed and haunted bridges on the planet.

With over 700 suicides, not to mention the deranged murders and ghosts, the span has a terrible history and is a black stain on the city’s reputation.

Haunted Montreal recommends that you avoid the Jacques Cartier Bridge altogether – or cross it at your own risk!

Where to get help:

Canada Suicide Prevention Service

Toll-free 1-833-456-4566

Text: 45645

Chat: crisisservicescanada.ca

In French: Association québécoise de prévention du suicide: 1-866-APPELLE (1-866-277-3553)

Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 (Phone), Live Chat counselling at www.kidshelpphone.ca

Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention: Find a 24-hour crisis centre

Company News

Haunted Montreal is now past our Hallowe’en Season and is moving into winter mode.

Normally this would entail a switch to the warm hearths of our Haunted Pub Crawl. However, Covid-19 has shut down all of the pubs and drinking establishments in Montreal.

As such, we will be offering Virtual Ghost Tours all winter long!

We are thrilled to announce that our Virtual Ghost Tour has been very successful to date!

We also plan to create other new virtual experiences. Not only is there a special Friday the 13^th edition tonight, November 13^th, but we will be resurrecting Montreal’s tradition of Victorian Christmas Ghost Storytelling in a virtual format!

Put on your slippers, grab a glass of mulled wine and join Haunted Montreal as we take you back in time to experience an old Christmas tradition that no longer exists.

If Covid-19 is ruining your company’s Christmas Party or family plans, please consider joining Haunted Montreal for an entertaining, traditional and deranged online haunted experience!

It is also an ideal supplement for any family Christmas gathering!

Tickets are now on sale, for the low price of $14.50 per computer screen!

Haunted Montreal would also like to thank all of our clients who attended a ghost walk, haunted pub crawl, paranormal investigation or virtual ghost tour during the 2019 – 2020 season!

If you enjoyed the experience, we encourage you to write a review on our Tripadvisor page, something that helps Haunted Montreal very much to market its tours – both live and online!

Lastly, if you would like to receive the Haunted Montreal Blog on the 13th of every month, please sign up to our mailing list.

Coming up on December 13: Montreal’s Haunted Sewers

Beneath the city lies a sewer system encompassing a combined distance of over 5,000 kilometers. With some sections dating back to 1832, this network has witnessed deadly accidents, including children falling through open manholes to their watery graves. The tragedies that have unfolded within this extensive sewer system have inspired many ghost stories. Today, this extensive, underground labyrinth of sewer pipes, both large and small, is said to be extremely haunted.

Donovan King is a postcolonial historian, teacher, tour guide and professional actor. As the founder of Haunted Montreal, he combines his skills to create the best possible Montreal ghost stories, in both writing and theatrical performance. King holds a DEC (Professional Theatre Acting, John Abbott College), BFA (Drama-in-Education, Concordia), B.Ed (History and English Teaching, McGill), MFA (Theatre Studies, University of Calgary) and ACS (Montreal Tourist Guide, Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec). He is also a certified Montreal Destination Specialist.