The Canoe - Le Canoë

02/16/2026

Learning To Grieve... Together.

02/16/2026

02/16/2026

𝐎𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞

Grief is such a complex experience, woven together with far more than we have been taught to believe, with the potential to offer us so much more than we allow it to.

The Canoe is more than a grief support organization. We are more than a group of empathic individuals committed to being at the side of those who are dying.

We are Village Builders, architects of a way of being that re-members that our Grief, as with our Love, is a garden that invites us into a deeper way of Belonging, together.

Comment, Share, DM... however you feel so called to contribute and help this Village grow, you are Welcome here.

02/06/2026

01/28/2026

𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜

01/23/2026

Why do we Grieve?

This is a question that we wonder about a lot here at The Canoe - Le Canoë, whether that is at our gatherings of DEATH OVER COFFEE or in private with individuals and families. Paul Simard shares one of the reasons we might grieve : how we have learned to love.

01/07/2026

An Invitation to Journey Together

In many cultures, when people faced long journeys—across rivers, lakes, or unknown waters—they did not go alone. They gathered. They built a canoe. And they traveled together.

The Canoe - Le Canoë was born from this ancient knowing.

It is a place for grief support, yes. A place to plan celebrations of life, rituals, and meaningful goodbyes. A place where I can come speak, listen, or help families and communities name what is often left unspoken.

But more than that, The Canoe is an invitation.

An invitation to step out of isolation and into shared humanity.
An invitation to acknowledge loss, grief, death, and our mortality—not as problems to be fixed, but as waters we all must eventually navigate.

An invitation to remember that none of us were meant to carry these things alone.

When you engage with The Canoe, you are not “signing up for services.”

You are stepping into a vessel that holds presence, slowness, honesty, and care.

You are joining others—some grieving loudly, some quietly, some simply curious—who are learning how to sit with life’s hardest truths without turning away.

You do not need to be in crisis.
You do not need the right words.
You do not even need to know why you feel drawn—only that something in you recognizes the water.

Loss is a part of Life. Grief touches us all. Death will come for all of us. And meaning is something we create together.

🛶 If you are grieving. If you are preparing. If you are supporting someone else. Or if you are simply curious—reach out. Ask a question. Start a conversation.

You are welcome in The Canoe.

Upcoming gatherings:
January 26th, 7pm at Victor Rose Espresso Bar (Pointe-Claire)
January 28th, 7pm at Cafe Sage (St-Lambert)

For personal or family support:
e. celebrations@thecanoe.co
m. 514.503.2116
w. www.thecanoe.co

01/05/2026

When we Love, as we are meant to do, then we must learn that we will Grieve.

The invitation, then, is to learn how to Grieve, to recognize the very human thing that it is, the "other" who enters our hearts and waits when Love kisses our Life.

Join us in The Canoe as we learn to live Grief together.

12/05/2025

𝙑𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙚 𝙏𝙬𝙤: 𝘾𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙚𝙨

A life is unique, what else might be possible when we consider the gathering of loved ones to re-member a life?

Let us more deeply engage with the marking of a death such that the life is woven into the offering we make in their honour.

When was the last time you went to a funeral, be it at a religious establishment or a funeral home, and had it be so unique that you could remember the details years later, it was so distinct?For the most part, if you remove the photo at the front, these celebrations of life have little if any of th...

12/05/2025

𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝘽𝙇𝙊𝙂 𝙄𝙎 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀!

We are happy to announce the official launch of our !

In this space, we will explore all the areas that might come up as we navigate grief, dying and death, providing an opportunity for reflection, personal and collective inquiry and an invitation to shape future posts.

As we continue on our commitment to nurture a death-positive, grief-literate society, we hope that you will find these offerings supportive on your own personal journey.

For most of my life, and even more so in the years since I started working as a death doula, Grief has almost always been associated with sadness. Occasional anger, on rare occasions, apathy or numbness. And if that is what Grief is, then of course it would make sense that people would absolutely wa...