Take Action / Chain of Life Challenge
Take on the Chain of Life Challenge at Ski Saint-Bruno!
Support Lieutenant Gabriel Bélanger, our flag-bearer representing volunteer police officers for organ transport in the Montérégie region. Donate to the region, form a team or join him for the climb. You'll be showing your support for organ and tissue donation education in schools.
It's a date on Sunday, October 13, 2024
550, rang des Vingt Cinq E (Ski St-Bruno)
Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Québec)
Flag-bearer
Lieutenant Gabriel Bélanger
I'm Lieutenant Gabriel Bélanger, and have been with the Sûreté du Québec for over 16 years. I am currently an operations officer at the Centre de services MRC Saint-Hyacinthe.
I've been a volunteer for the Canadian Organ and Tissue Donors Association (CODA) since 2014 and over the years, I have made more than 85 organ transports totaling several hundred volunteer hours.
In October 2016, I was awarded the Good Samaritan Medal of Honour in recognition of my contribution and commitment to the cause of organ and tissue donation. Since September 2023, I have been coordinating the Sûreté du Québec's CODA unit in Montréal where I handle the requests for organ transports and assign a volunteer police officer to do the transport. I also continue to provide transports when the opportunity arises.
My involvement in organ donation transport means a lot to me. I'm proud to be part of the great chain of life that is organ donation. The closest I've ever come to the expression “saving a life” is transporting an organ. I remember transporting a heart on Valentine's Day—imagine that! It really touched my heart.
Organ transport gives meaning to my work as a police officer. Volunteering is good for the soul, and I'm proud to be able to help my community in this way.
The Key Links in the Chain of Life
The key links in the chain of life are doctors, nurses, transplant recipients, donor families, teachers, students, distinguished climbers, public figures and many others... who join forces to create a movement uniting all those touched directly or indirectly by organ and tissue donation.
The day of the event
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For the Challenge, you will need warm clothing, a snack and water.
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In case of bad weather, please consult the Facebook event for the Montérégie region for details.
9:00
Arrival time for participants
10:00
Opening Words
10:30
Start of the climb
11:30
Photo at the top
12:00
End of the event
France D’Aoust
Team: Clément ❤️
Myriam Gauthier
Team: Clément ❤️
Alex Boucher
Team: Clément ❤️
Arnaud Boucher
Team: Clément ❤️
Émile Boucher
Team: Clément ❤️
Isabelle D'Aoust
Team: Clément ❤️
Charlie-Rose Lalonde
Team: Clément ❤️
Sara-Maude Lalonde
Team: Clément ❤️
Ann-Sophie Lalonde
Team: Clément ❤️
sophie daoust
Team: Clément ❤️
pierre gauthier
Team: Clément ❤️
Judith Gauthier
Team: Clément ❤️
Émile Gaudreau
Team: Clément ❤️
Pierre Bellerive
Team: Clément ❤️
Monique Poirier
Team: Clément ❤️
Caroline Veillette
Team: Clément ❤️
Boris Roussimoff
Team: Clément ❤️
Alex Loiseau
Team: Clément ❤️
Duane Rouleau
Team: Clément ❤️
Réal Labelle
Team: Clément ❤️
Dominique Dussault
Team: Clément ❤️
Stéphane Caron
Team: Kine-Azur
Isabelle Harvey
Team: Kine-Azur
Amélie Caron
Team: Kine-Azur
Jérémie Caron
Team: Kine-Azur
Justin Caron
Team: Kine-Azur
Andrea Lopez
Team: Kine-Azur
Maria-Alexandra Craciun
Team: Kine-Azur
Lisette Massy
Team: Kine-Azur
Clément Jr III Hobbs
Team: Kine-Azur
Micheline Rapin
Team: Kine-Azur
Kim Leblanc
Team: Kine-Azur
Stéphanie Fontaine
Team: Kine-Azur
Alain Laramée
Team: La Reina!
Chai Lin Heng
Team: La Reina!
Mégane Laramée
Team: La Reina!
Marie-Claude Denis
Team: Les binzous
Annie Devost
Team: Les binzous
Étienne Martin-Ouellet
Team: Les binzous
Rosie Ouellet
Team: Les binzous
Joanna Love
Team: Les binzous
Roger Bernardin
Team: Les binzous
Katherine Bernardin
Team: Les binzous
Gabriel Bélanger
Team: Sûreté du Québec
Justine Dubeau
Team: Sûreté du Québec
Ginette Dagenais
Team: No team
Gary Scott
Team: No team
Colette Bérubé
Team: No team
Hubert Pelletier
Team: No team
Hinamo Pelletier
Team: No team
Nathalie Bissonnette
Team: No team
Steve Rheault
Team: No team
Olivier Diec
Team: No team
Lisa Choy
Team: No team
Zoé Diec
Team: No team
Xavier Diec
Team: No team
Valérie Roach
Team: No team
Stéphane Caron
1 month 4 weeks agomade a donation of $120 to the team: Kine-Azur
Maria-Alexandra Craciun
1 month 4 weeks agomade a donation of $30 to the team: Kine-Azur
Lisette Massy
1 month 4 weeks agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Kine-Azur
Veronique Giroux-Quesnel
1 month 4 weeks agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Kine-Azur
« Un beau geste Chaîne de vie 🫶 »
Ginette Dagenais
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $30 to the region
Montse Hernandez
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Kine-Azur
« Bravo ! »
Alain Laramée
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $50 to the team: La Reina!
Daniel Dumont
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $50 to the team: La Reina!
Clement Jr III Hobbs
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Kine-Azur
France D’Aoust
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Clément ❤️
Myriam Gauthier
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $70 to the team: Clément ❤️
Danielle Saumier
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Clément ❤️
« À la mémoire de notre beau Clément »
Isabelle D'Aoust
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $200 to the team: Clément ❤️
sophie daoust
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $60 to the team: Clément ❤️
Katherine Doyon
1 month 3 weeks agomade a donation of $40 to the team: Clément ❤️
Judith Gauthier
1 month 2 weeks agomade a donation of $60 to the team: Clément ❤️
Denis Menard
1 month 2 weeks agomade a donation of $100 to the team: La Reina!
Martine Gagnon
1 month 2 weeks agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Kine-Azur
Jocelyne Yelle
1 month 2 weeks agomade a donation of $100 to the region
« Désolée d’être absents cette année A l’année prochaine Si vous pouvez comptabiliser les dons à la mémoire d’Alexis Pelletier ce serait apprécié Bon défi! Jocelyne et Gérald »
Pierre Bellerive
1 month 2 weeks agomade a donation of $60 to the team: Clément ❤️
Caroline Veillette
1 month 2 weeks agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Clément ❤️
Chai Lin Heng
1 month 2 weeks agomade a donation of $30 to the team: La Reina!
Clément Jr III Hobbs
1 month 2 weeks agomade a donation of $30 to the team: Kine-Azur
Marie Stella Tapp
1 month 2 weeks agomade a donation of $55 to the team: La Reina!
Marie-josee Normand
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $100 to the team: La Reina!
Marie-Claude Denis
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Les binzous
Gabriel Bélanger
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Sûreté du Québec
Josée Blanchard
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Sûreté du Québec
Jacynthe Desmarais
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Les binzous
« Pcq chaque don compte et qu’un petit garçon profite de chaque moment grâce à cela »
Nathalie Martin
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $20 to the team: Sûreté du Québec
Kathy Roussel
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Kine-Azur
Micheline Rapin
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $30 to the team: Kine-Azur
Colette Bérubé
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $100 to the region
Claude Harvey
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Kine-Azur
Sylvie Robidoux
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Kine-Azur
Nancy Emond
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Kine-Azur
« Bravo ! Bonne marche ! »
Hubert Pelletier
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $30 to the region
Nathalie Bissonnette
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $30 to the region
Jean Denis
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Les binzous
Steve Rheault
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $30 to the region
Marie-Hélène Péloquin
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Clément ❤️
Annie Devost
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Les binzous
Jean-Paul Harvey
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Kine-Azur
Olivier Diec
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $100 to the region
Boris Roussimoff
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $80 to the team: Clément ❤️
Patrick Bertrand
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $25 to the team: Sûreté du Québec
« Bonne ascention à toute l'équipe ! »
Marc Durocher
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Sûreté du Québec
« Félicitations pour ton implication dans cette noble cause! »
Caisse Police
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $250 to the team: Sûreté du Québec
Ève Robidoux
1 month 1 week agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Les binzous
Lynda Blanchette
1 month agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Clément ❤️
« Go mon amie Go »
Reina Chenier
1 month agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Les binzous
Duane Rouleau
1 month agomade a donation of $100 to the team: Clément ❤️
Dominique Dussault
1 month agomade a donation of $50 to the team: Clément ❤️
Valérie Roach
1 month agomade a donation of $50 to the region
Étienne Martin-Ouellet
1 month agomade a donation of $30 to the team: Les binzous
Joanna Love
1 month agomade a donation of $60 to the team: Les binzous
Stéphanie Fontaine
1 month agomade a donation of $35 to the team: Kine-Azur
Marc-André Goudreault
1 month agomade a donation of $100 to the team: La Reina!
« Félicitations à tous les gens impliqués et courage à ceux qui se battent en ce moment ! Vous êtes inspirants 💪 »
Distinguished Climber
Maurice Beauséjour
Like many athletes, I started out doing marathons, then Ironmans and then, Triple-Ironmans.
Serge Dessureault and I came from the same village, St-Michel-des-Saints. In 1998, we bumped into each other and he had no trouble convincing me to join him in participating in lots of sporting events every year: Raid Aventure, desert races, mountain biking, etc...
With time, we got a taste for the mountain and eventually, that mountain became Mount Everest, whose summit we reached by the north side in 2007.
In 2018, we aspired to carry the Chain of Life flag to the summit of K2, but fate decided otherwise. The flag fell out of the bag it was in and was lost on the mountain. However, it was finally found and given to Noël Hanna, an expert climber. And so, the flag got back into circulation, which just goes to show that the chain cannot be broken.
It is with pleasure that I join Chain of Life to encourage and raise awareness about organ and tissue donation. Who doesn't dream of saving a life?
Maurice Beauséjour
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The late Serge Dessureault
For many years, this exceptional and generous man was not only an ambassador and distinguished climber for Chain of Life, but he was also on the organizing committee of the Challenge in the Montérégie region.
Sadly, Serge passed away in July 2018 in a tragic accident while climbing K2. He had left for Pakistan with Nathalie Fortin and Maurice Beauséjour, both of whom are also involved in the Défi, with the intention of carrying the Chain of Life flag to the summit.
Since then, each year, in each region, a mention is made by the distinguished climber in tribute to Serge.
Serge, you are, and will always be, in our hearts!
Mountain Climbing and Waiting for a Transplant: What a Parallel!
Participants in the Chain of Life Challenge carry the flag to the top of a mountain in their region.
Waiting for a transplant is a bit like climbing a mountain. Both require preparation, fortitude, determination, perseverance and, most of all, support — the climber needs strong climbing partners and the person waiting for an organ needs a reliable support network. Both are real challenges. This is why the mountain has become one of the symbols associated with Chain of Life.
By planting the Chain of Life flag at the top of a mountain, we are not only showing our solidarity for organ and tissue donation, but we are also helping send a message of hope to all those waiting for a transplant in Quebec and elsewhere.
Thank you to our partners!
