MONTREAL – A relatively small number of people – about 70 – turned up Monday for the funeral of Salvatore Montagna, a reputed mobster who appeared to be making a move to lead the Mafia in Montreal.
Mourners filed into Notre Dame de Pompei Church on Sauve St. E., near the corner of St. Michel Blvd., before 10 a.m.
Montagna was killed Thursday as he was leaving a house on Île Vaudry, just east of Montreal.
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Police sources have said that Montagna appeared to be very active in attempting to create a consensus in who should assume the leadership of the Rizzuto Clan in Montreal.
Two limousines carrying large wreaths of flowers pulled up to the church before mourners entered the church.
One of the floral arrangements was from his immediate family.
It included the names of his three daughters and a note that read “we will never forget you.”
Montagna was alleged by American authorities to have been the head of the Bonanno family before he was deported to Canada in 2009.
He was born in Montreal, raised in Sicily and moved to the U.S. in his late teens.
The relatively modest turnout appears to be a sign that Montagna did not have many ties to people in Montreal.
Funerals for other mobsters – including Nicolo (Zio Cola) Rizzuto and Agostino Cuntrera – were attended by hundreds of mourners.
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