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    [ff_id] => 1969
    [first_name] => Réal
    [nickname] => 
    [middle_name] => 
    [last_name] => Chartrand
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    [employment] => Career (Full Time)
    [rank] => Pompier
    [birth_date] => 1929-12-27
    [joined_date] => 1951
    [death_date] => 2019-03-20
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    [age] => 89
    [department] => Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal
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    [city] => Montréal
    [province] => QC
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    [cause] => Work Related Illness - Lung Cancer
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    [date_entered] => 2024-03-24 14:31:27
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    [note] => 23000406(QC) & Memorial Grant
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Réal Chartrand

Service des incendies de Montréal (SIM)

Firefighter Réal Chartrand died from a work- related illness on March 20, 2019 in Montreal at the age of 89. He joined the fire services of the City of Montreal in February 1951.

Mémoires de famille / Family memories

Réal was employed by the City of Montreal Fire Department (SIM) for 30 years and retired in 1981. Loved by all, he dedicated his life with fidelity and loyalty for the safety of the members of his community as well as those of his precious family. Mischievous and a trickster, he was an exceptional unifier and team player. He was affectionately called ¨Sam¨ by his colleagues. When asked what job he held he answered firefighter ¨simple man¨ referring to the fact that he did not have an officer rank but preferred to be a proud firefighter of the base. It was when we witnessed our father fighting a fire, while we were in the schoolyard next to the burning building around the age of 12, that we realized that the profession being a firefighter was not ¨simple¨and that this work had to be accomplished by exceptional men.

Furthermore, his death will have been the result of a work-related illness related to his work while his human warmth, his good humor and his joy of living will now be forever absent from the lives of his family members, his many friends and former colleagues who adored him and whom he adored.

Have a good, well-deserved rest dear Réal.

 

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Réal Chartrand

Service des incendies de Montréal (SIM)

Le pompier Réal Chartrand a succombé à une maladie professionnelle le 20 mars 2019 à Montréal à l’âge de 89 ans. Il s’est joint aux services de la Ville de Montréal en février 1951.

Firefighter Réal Chartrand died from a work- related illness on March 20, 2019 in Montreal at the age of 89. He joined the fire services of the City of Montreal in February 1951.

Mémoires de famille / Family memories

Réal a été à l’emploi du Service des incendies de la Ville de Montréal (SIM) durant 30 ans et pris sa retraite en 1981. Aimé de tous il aura consacré sa vie avec fidélité et loyauté pour la sécurité des membres de sa communauté ainsi que ceux de sa précieuse famille. Espiègle et joueur de tours il était un rassembleur et un joueur d’équipe exceptionnel. Il était affectueusement appelé ¨Sam¨ par ses confrères. Lorsqu’on lui demandait quel emploi il occupait il répondait pompier ¨simple homme¨ faisant référence au fait qu’il n’avait pas de grade d’officier mais qu’il préférait être un fier pompier de la base. C’est lorsque nous avons été témoin de voir notre père lutter contre un incendie, alors que nous étions dans la cour d’école voisine de l’immeuble en flammes vers l’âge de 12 ans, que nous avons réalisé que le métier de pompier n’était pas ¨simple¨ et que ce travail devait être accompli par des hommes d’exception.

Par ailleurs, son décès aura été le résultat d’une maladie professionnelle reliée à son travail alors que sa chaleur humaine, sa bonne humeur et sa joie de vivre seront désormais absents à jamais des vies des membres de sa famille, de ses nombreux amis et anciens collègues qui l’adoraient et qu’il adorait.

Bon repos bien mérité cher Réal.

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    [dod] => 2019-03-20
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