Eastern Townships 6th grader warms up Montreal streets
CBC
When 12-year-old Logan Laguë heard a Montreal man had died in the cold in early January, he felt compelled to do something about it. The Grade 6 student from Knowlton, Que. had no idea how quickly his plan to help out would take off.
"I just really felt bad and I didn't want anything like that to happen again," he said. "So I grabbed my sled and I went out knocking on doors."
Logan has gathered hundreds of bags of warm clothes and outerwear in the Eastern Townships — items he and his mother have been giving to people in the city who don't have a roof over their head.
In the past 11 days, two people have been found dead in Montreal as a cold snap grips southern Quebec. Overnight Thursday, a woman's body was discovered near the Berri UQAM Metro station and last week, a man was found under an NDG overpass.
This week also marked one year since an Indigenous man, Raphael André, died inside a portable toilet, steps away from a Parc Avenue shelter.
Shelters and drop-in centres across the city have struggled to keep up with high demand, especially during the winter, as public health restrictions have limited how many people they can take in. Many shelters also have a policy against allowing in anyone who is under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Logan's project may have begun with him trudging around with his sled but it quickly snowballed.
His mother, Cynthia Royea, was surprised how quickly the sleeping bags, socks, mittens, boots and coats started piling up. It wasn't long before she and her husband joined in.
"[Our neighbours] called friends thinking it was cute and somebody said, 'Put it online!' The phone started ringing from there," she said.
Royea posted on Facebook about what Logan was doing and they started storing donations on the second storey of a daycare owned by her husband.
"The upstairs is completely full … the living room is full, the kitchen is full," she said.
Royea loaded the family SUV and made four trips to Montreal last week.
Last Saturday, she and Logan visited two Montreal shelters — the Maison du Père and the Old Brewery Mission — and drove around the city to connect their donations to people directly.
"The joy of letting somebody be able to pick what they need is beautiful," she said.
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