MONTREAL – A civic funeral will be held Monday for former Montreal mayor Jean Doré.
He died Monday, June 15 at the age of 70 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Doré became Montreal’s 39th mayor in 1986 when his party swept to power following the retirement of Jean Drapeau, who had been mayor of Montreal for the previous 26 years.
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Doré was three years into his term in 1989 when a lone gunman killed 14 women at the École Polytechnique in what’s now known as the Montreal Massacre – Canada’s worst mass shooting.
Published reports said Doré called it the “darkest day” in Montreal’s history.
He lost the 1994 election to Pierre Bourque, and after a failed comeback attempt with a new party in 1998, Doré left politics.
He had served as press attaché for René Lévesque during the 1970 provincial election.
Doré will lie in state at city hall over the weekend.
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