George Springate News Today

Monique Bégin, Egbert Gaye, Karl Tremblay, David Fennario and Denise Bombardier are among those who passed away in the last 12 months.

Red and White gala set for Jan. 30.

He was to be honoured at a roast "capping his careers so far as a policeman, pro football player, lawyer, teacher, politician and unparalleled self-promoter."

At Monday night’s Pierrefonds-Roxboro council meeting, council rejected the idea of a zoning change for the green space on Anselme-Lavigne and Richmond near George Springate Park.


When he passed away in November 2109, Pointe Claire and Pierrefonds-Roxboro lowered their flags to half-mast to honour George Springate. Springate was a police officer, politician, athlete, educator and Citizenship Judge who died at the age of 81. A McGill graduate, Springate played football for the varsity Redmen before playing in the CFL with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Montreal Alouettes. He worked as a police officer and an MNA for the riding of Sainte Anne in the early 1970s, as ...

  MONTREAL -- A West Island CEGEP is establishing a scholarship for students looking to become part of the next generation of police officers in memory of one of its founders. An annual scholarship of $2,000 will be given to a third-year student in John Abbott College’s Police Technology program starting in June of 2021 in honour of George Springate. A Montreal police officer for 11 years, Springate co-founded the program in 1973. He was heralded as an extraordinary role model for his s...