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The BBQ Season raffle has just launched!

It’s BBQ Season at Maison La Traversée!

Dear Supporter of La Traversée,

For the fifth year in a row, we’re bringing back our “BBQ Season” campaign to raise funds for our palliative care home. We are generously sponsored by Gagnon – La Grande Quincaillerie and Bœuf Tremblant/Ferme Léonard, allowing us to offer a fantastic raffle prize: a Napoleon BBQ, including a 20 lb propane tank, cover, accessories, and $250 worth of top-quality meat—perfect for the most delicious BBQs in the region!

Raffle tickets for this generous prize, valued at $2,296, are on sale for $30 each. You can purchase yours directly from the Fondation La Traversée, by scanning the QR code attached, or online at:

Accueil | Fondation La Traversée

We only have 500 tickets available this year!

Your donations and support allow Fondation La Traversée to remain a haven of peace for every person who comes to spend their final days in our warm and welcoming palliative care home. Every resident is received with compassion and completely free of charge.

Feel free to share this with your family and friends. Since all proceeds go directly to Fondation La Traversée, we all win by contributing to the success of our community.

Thank you sincerely for your support. Have a wonderful day!

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Flo Flower Market in Support of Fondation La Traversée

🌸 Flo Flower Market in Support of Fondation La Traversée 🌸

On June 7 and 8, come fill up on color and compassion at our Flo Flower Market, held at La Traversée, located at 5100 Montée Ryan in Mont-Tremblant.

All proceeds from the sale will go directly to Fondation La Traversée, which offers free end-of-life care in a compassionate environment, grounded in respect and dignity.

For the fourth consecutive year, our generous donor Les Serres Flo is making this incredible gift possible. This year, we’ll have more plants than ever before, offering you a wider and even more beautiful selection throughout the weekend.

🌼 Come pick your flowers while supporting a deeply human cause. Every purchase makes a difference. 🌼

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Lobster dinner 2025

We are pleased to invite you to a lobster dinner organized for the benefit of our palliative care home. 

Open since September 2021, La Maison La Traversée offers, free of charge, exceptional accommodations, and compassionate palliative medical care to end-of-life patients and their loved ones. La Traversée is located in a beautiful historic building on an enchanting site in the heart of the Laurentians.

Your participation in this event will directly contribute to supporting our mission and ensuring the continuity of our services, which largely depend on the generosity of our community. Come share a delicious meal, strengthen bonds of friendship and collaboration, and support a noble and essential cause.

– An alternative menu will be offered for those who do not want lobster. 

Event details  
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025  
Time: 5:30 PM  
Place: Le Grand Lodge du Lac Ouimet 

Ticket(s): 
$260/person (receipt for approximately $100 will be issued) 
$1,975/Table of 8 people (5% discount) 

Included: 
1.5 lobsters/person (or grill) 
Welcome cocktail sparkling wine 
½ bottle of wine per person 
Small pleasures of life 

2025 Smile Cookie campaign

For the fourth year in a row the generous owners of Tim Hortons restaurants in Mont-Tremblant will be supporting La Traversée Foundation, Palliative Care Home during the Smile Cookie campaign.

By purchasing delicious Tim Hortons’ Smile Cookies, freshly baked and decorated by our volunteers, you help maintain the free services offered to people at the end of life. Thanks to your support, La Maison La Traversée will be able to continue offering quality palliative care, surrounding residents in a warm and attentive environment, while providing relief to their loved ones.

When you buy a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie you are making a donation to La Fondation La Traversée, because every dollar is donated! Only $2 per cookie!

If you want to pamper your employees and be the coolest boss in the region, or even spoil your customers and friends, you can order your cookies in advance by completing the online form

Thank you all and don’t hesitate to share the good news!

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Santa Claus Visit and His Mini-Farm

What to do this weekend!

Santa Claus Visit and His Mini-Farm
Poinsettia and Christmas Tree Sale to benefit
La Fondation La Traversée

La Fondation La Traversée is delighted to invite you to the most generous market in the region, taking place on November 29, 30, and December 1, 2024. This event is a wonderful opportunity to decorate your home while supporting an important cause.

Through the sale of poinsettias and Christmas trees, essential funds are raised to allow end of life patients to enjoy their final moments in a warm and compassionate environment, surrounded by loved ones and supported by a professional and caring team.

Santa Claus will be visiting, and new this year: a mini-farm will be on-site on Saturday and Sunday for the delight of young and old alike.

Event Details:

Location (New venue):
2396 rue Labelle, Mont-Tremblant, in the parking lot next to Expérience SK and Le Grand Lodge.

Schedule:
Christmas Market
November 29: 3 PM to 6:30 PM
November 30: 10 AM to 6 PM
December 1: 10 AM to 3 PM

Santa Claus Visit:
November 29: 2 PM to 4 PM
November 30: 1 PM to 3 PM and 4 PM to 6 PM
December 1: 10 AM to 12 PM

Products for Sale:

Brightly colored poinsettias, freshly cut Christmas trees, Christmas wreaths, gift ideas, and much more.

La Fondation La Traversée warmly thanks the community and its precious volunteers, who make this sale a must-attend event during the holiday season. In addition to purchasing poinsettias and trees, you can also contribute with additional donations to support the Foundation’s efforts.

Together, let’s make Christmas a time of sharing and generosity.

Our 2024 BBQ Season Draw has come to an end!

: M. Tom Poitras, Directeur général de La Fondation La Traversée, M. Frédérick Samuel de La Boucherie Les Mercenaires Culinaires, Notre gagnant M. Donald Richard et sa fille Fanny Brosseau-Richard ainsi que bébé Albert, Mme Hélène Alain et M. Yvon Gignac de GAGNON – La Grande Quincaillerie

Thanks to all of you, we made this campaign a success despite a shorter sales period than in previous years. We raised a total of $11,400 from our ticket sales, with the draw taking place on August 26th.

The grand prize winner, Mr. Donald Richard, chose to gift this amazing prize to his daughter Fanny Brosseau-Richard, who was thrilled to receive this unexpected gift.

We want to express our deepest gratitude to all the ticket buyers, volunteers, and merchants who contributed to the sale of our tickets. Your support is essential to the success of our fundraising campaigns.

And finally, a huge thank you to our valuable sponsors!

A special thanks to GAGNON – La Grande Quincaillerie, who has provided the centerpiece of this draw since 2021. A sincere thank you to La Boucherie Les Mercenaires Culinaires and La Poissonnerie Ô Capitaine for the delicious prizes that will undoubtedly accompany excellent BBQ meals. A special thanks to Metro Mont-Tremblant, who once again offered us a prime spot for the last day of ticket sales this year.

See you next year for the 2025 BBQ Season Draw!

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Lobster dinner

With great pride, here are the results of the first edition of our Lobster Dinner

We are thrilled to have held such a sold-out event, bringing the community of the region together at the Grand Lodge of Mont-Tremblant. This memorable evening raised more than $17,000 in support of the La Traversée Foundation.

We want to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who contributed to the unparalleled success of this evening. Our thanks go to:

IGA Mont-Tremblant for the food,

Sélection Fréchette for the wines,

L’Instant Gourmand for the desserts,

Interbloom for the centerpieces,

Jean-Marie Savard for the beautiful photos, and of course,

The Grand Lodge Mont-Tremblant for their warm hospitality and impeccable service.

Thank you all for your generous participation!

We look forward to seeing you again soon at our upcoming charity events

Crédit photo: Jean-Marie Savard

Our Third Flower Market, a Great Success!

We are very proud to present the results of our Flower Market, which took place on June 1st and 2nd, 2024.

It is with great joy and gratitude that we reveal the total amount raised during this exceptional weekend: our flower sales reached the fabulous sum of $41,000.

Thanks to the beautiful floral arrangements offered by Flo Canada, we exceeded our expectations. Every purchase of flowers, tomato, and strawberry plants was fully donated to the La Traversée Foundation, allowing our palliative care home to continue offering free, quality care in a peaceful environment.

We would like to warmly thank each and every one of you for your purchases and support. Your contribution makes all the difference.

A heartfelt thank you to our amazing volunteers, whose help in the preparation and sales is essential to the success of this event. You are the driving force behind our mission.

Of course, this wonderful result would not have been possible without the invaluable help of the Houle family, owner/operator of Flo Canada, who have generously supported us for four years with their poinsettias and Christmas trees for our Christmas Market, as well as their beautiful floral arrangements for the Flower Market. We are infinitely grateful to you.

We look forward to seeing you at the 2025 Flower Market!

Smile Cookie 2024

It is with great joy that we received a check from Tim Horton, representing the result of the Smile Cookie Campaign.

Thanks to all of you, our wonderful community, we have exceeded the goal we hoped to reach. All your purchases and shares on social media have allowed us to collect the extraordinary amount of $10,076.75 The campaign was so popular that we ran out of cookies and could have undoubtedly increased this extraordinary result! We’ll be ready for next year!

We sincerely want to thank the very generous owners of our Tim Hortons in Mont-Tremblant, Ann Brayley and Peter Arzenshek, as well as all their employees who participated in this magnificent success. Without you, this fundraising for our palliative care home wouldn’t take place and we would be deprived of donations that are extremely precious to us to continue our mission.

A huge thank you to Mr. Mathieu St-Cyr, Senior Manager, Regional Marketing, province of Quebec, for the support offered to small organizations like ours. Thanks to the place you make for us in your campaign, you offer us a wonderful opportunity to get known and to collect the amounts so precious for the survival of our House.

A heartfelt thank you to our volunteers, always present and involved at La Traversée. Without your help, it would be difficult, if not almost impossible, to be present when a fundraising opportunity like the Smile Cookie campaign arises.

And again, 10,076 times THANK YOU to our wonderful community that supports and encourages us at every charitable event. We are blessed to count on the strength of your numerous shares and your enthusiasm in doing so.

We’ll see you NEXT YEAR with a higher goal and also more cookies to sell.

In the photo: Ms. Ann Brayley and Mr. Peter Arzenshek, owners of Tim Hortons in Mont-Tremblant, Ms. Christine-Carole Verdon, Executive Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator, and Mr. Tom Poitras, Executive Director, both from La Fondation La Traversée, and Mr. Mathieu St-Cyr, Senior Manager, Regional Marketing, province of Quebec for Tim Hortons.

Thanks for your support!

Christmas tree and poinsettias

For the fourth consecutive year, we are continuing our Holiday tradition of selling Christmas trees and poinsettias for the benefit of La Traversée Foundation, a beautiful palliative care home offering free end of life care to our community.

All orders can be picked up during our Market weekend which will take place on the weekend of the 24th, 25th and 26th, at Maison La Traversée, 5100 Montée Ryan, Mont-Tremblant. While on premise, we encourage you to take the time to purchase unique gifts generously offered by local artisans. All profits will benefit our palliative care home.