Line of Duty Deaths – Ottawa Firefighters Community Foundation

Line of Duty Deaths

Always Loved, Never Forgotten.

This page commemorates Fallen Fire Fighters who died on the job or as a result of occupational diseases such as work related cancers or heart attacks.

Claude (Joe) Charlebois

Born: Dec 14, 1957
Joined OFD: Mar 23,1981
Retired: Apr 15, 2015
Deceased: Sept 6, 2024

Dave Morgan

Born: Nov 11, 1949
Appointed: Nov 1, 1972
Retired: Aug 31, 2009
Deceased: May 2, 2024

Gary Attfield

Born: Sept 9, 1954
Joined OFD: Jan 10, 1977
Retired: Aug 30, 2010
Deceased: Oct 2023

Wayne Sabourin

Born: Feb 21, 1939
Joined OFD: 1962
Retired: 1998
Deceased: Sept 21, 2023

Timothy E. Orton

Born: Jun 29, 1960
Appointed: Feb 2, 1983
Retired: Jun 30, 2020
Deceased: Sept 1, 2022

Charles “Charlie” Brown

Born: March 9, 1948
Appointed: 1970
Retired: 2003
Deceased: February 21, 2022

Robert Pagé

Born: Jun 16, 1948
Appointed: Dec 9, 1968
Retired: Jun 30, 2003
Deceased: Dec 23, 2021

Ryan Hill

Born: 1984
Appointed: 2011
Deceased: Dec 20, 2021

Bob Gorman

Born: Feb 2, 1937
Appointed: Dec 2, 1957
Retired: Oct 31, 1996
Deceased: Dec 18, 2020

John Leslie McBride

Born: April 7, 1958
Appointed: November 22, 1982
Retired: June 30, 2015
Deceased: October 15, 2020

Pat Dorion

Born: Apr 25, 1939
Appointed: Dec 2, 1957
Retired: Sept 11, 1988
Deceased: Jun 4, 2020

Alvin Stafford Girard

Born: Mar 14, 1936
Appointed: Feb 3, 1958
Retired: Mar 31,1996
Deceased: Jan 12, 2020

James Band

Deceased: Nov 26, 2019

Richard Walker

Born: Jan 26, 1969
Appointed: Jun 28, 2004
Resigned: Sept 25, 2015
Deceased: Sept 22, 2019

John Carriere

Born: May 17, 1946
Appointed: Oct 04, 1967
Retired: 2016
Deceased: Jul 13, 2018

Bill Driscoll

Born: Sept 01, 1940
Appointed: Jan 4, 1960
Retired: Jun 10, 1996
Deceased: Nov 13, 2017

Daniel J. Miller

Born: Apr 14, 1944
Appointed: May 03, 1965
Retired: Jan 31, 2002
Deceased: Oct 31, 2017

Edward Hartley

Born: May 28, 1937
Appointed: Dec 02, 1957
Retired: Aug 31, 1995
Deceased: Oct 1, 2017

Rudi Douma

Born: Sept 15, 1946
Appointed: Jun 1977
Retired: Dec 1999
Deceased: Oct 28, 2016

Charlie Lucas

Born: Mar 21, 1934
Appointed: Oct 31, 1955
Retired: Jul 03, 1992
Deceased: Jul 02, 2016

Gordie Paquette

Born: Sept 28, 1928
Appointed: Aug 05, 1952
Retired: Sept 30, 1988
Deceased: May 05, 2016

Norman Grant

Born: Oct 08, 1935
Appointed: Feb 03, 1958
Retired: Apr 18, 1993
Deceased: Nov 11, 2015

Wayne Campbell

Born: Nov 17, 1941
Appointed: Dec 12, 1963
Retired: May 31, 2001
Deceased: Oct 04, 2014

Richard Mason

Born: May 9, 1951
Appointed: Feb 28, 1977
Retired: 2001
Deceased: Oct 14, 2013

Herbie Lytle

Born: Apr 18, 1936
Appointed: Dec 2, 1957
Med. Dis.: Jun 13, 1993
Deceased: Jun 28, 2013

Gordon Hay

Born: May 1, 1949
Joined: Jul 24, 1972
Retired: Jul 31, 2002
Deceased: Jun 7, 2021

Martin Michels

Born: Feb 15, 1953
Joined : May 12, 1980
Retired : Feb 28, 2013
Died : Jan 26, 2021

Gilles Crete

Born: Feb 22, 1961
Appointed: May 2, 1988
Active: Captain
Deceased: Jul 25, 2016

Alan Darling

Born: Apr 15, 1952
Appointed: Jan 27, 1975
Retired: 2012
Deceased: Apr 4, 2014

Grant Wilson

Born: March 15, 1960
Appointed: Nov 10, 1980
Active Member
Deceased: Apr 03, 2014

Gord Kemp

Deceased: Aug 13, 2013

Maynard McEwan

Deceased: May 12, 2012

Ted Tokaryk

Born: Dec 17, 1956
Appointed: Sept 04, 1979
Retired: Dec 14, 2001
Deceased: Dec 01, 2011

Donald McCormick

Deceased: Nov 6, 2009

Edward J. (Ed) Tremblay

Born: Jan 11, 1926
Appointed: Mar 06, 1950
Retired: Jan 31, 1986
Deceased: Dec 11, 2008

Alex MacDonald

Deceased: Feb 9, 2008

David O’Keefe

Deceased: Jan 18, 2008

Richard Gietz

Deceased: Dec 29, 2007

Kenneth Charlebois

Deceased: May 3, 2007

Mark Johnston

Deceased: Apr 7, 2007

Patrick Thibodeau

Deceased: Apr 26, 2006

Herve Cyr

Deceased: Oct 17, 2005

J.E. Ted Darlington

Deceased: Apr 21, 2005

Claude Levesque

Deceased: Feb 26, 2005

Andy Renaud

Born: May 29, 1944
Appointed: Dec 4, 1967
Retired: Apr 1, 2000
Deceased: Aug 14, 2003

Kevin Kavanagh

Deceased: Sept 23, 2002

Lucien Joseph Meranger

Born: Oct 30, 1924
Appointed: May 01, 1947
Retired: Apr 22, 1979
Deceased: Sept 23, 2002

Robert McVeity

Deceased: Jun 26, 2002

Kenneth Currie

Deceased: Feb 1, 2000

Robert Crothers

Deceased: Aug 28, 1997

Renee Arbour

Born: Jan 20, 1911
Appointed: Nov 10, 1936
Retired: Jan 31, 1972
Deceased: May 19, 1997

Kenneth Andrews

Deceased: May 15, 1997

Kevin Stenfert

Deceased: Jun 28, 1996

William Brian Mills

Deceased: Jan 7, 1996

Harvey Bellinger

Born: Jun 13, 1940
Appointed: Aug 7, 1967
Deceased: Oct 25, 1993

Brian Brady

Born: Aug 14, 1946
Appointed: 1973
Retired: Oct, 1992
Deceased: Jul 22, 1993

Andy G. Rawlings

Born: Jun 28, 1943
Appointed: Mar 28, 1966
Deceased: Mar 2, 1988

Maurice Grenon

Deceased: Dec 13, 1982

Howard Greer

Deceased: Nov 24, 1978

Raymond Dunning

Deceased: Jun 1, 1977

John Harrison

Born: Dec 8, 1937
Appointed: Apr 16, 1956
Deceased: Mar 6, 1969

Allen Snider

Deceased: Mar 6, 1968

Ernest Tyers

Born: Jan 18, 1911
Appointed: Jul 11, 1940
Deceased: Oct 23, 1967

Albini Wistaff

Deceased: May 12, 1959

Desmond Dubroy

Deceased: Apr 1, 1959

Albert Seguss

Deceased: Dec 20, 1951

Oral Post

Born: Dec 09, 1918
Appointed: Jul 16, 1945
Deceased: Sept 20, 1950

Vernon Kempffer

Deceased: May 26, 1947

Stanley Lough

Deceased: Jun 13, 1941

Wilfred Morin

Deceased: Jan 29, 1941

William McDiarmid

Deceased: May 15, 1931

Robert Pratt

Deceased: May 19, 1930

William Willette

Deceased: May 18, 1930

Eugene Lecomte

Deceased: Apr 10, 1930

Nelson Poirier

Deceased: Jan 29, 1921

Albert Picotte

Deceased: Jan 31, 1919

Bernard Thomas

Deceased: Sep 14, 1914

Ovila Lachance

Deceased: Aug 16, 1898

John Lowry

Deceased: Aug 12, 1896

Francis Graham

Deceased: July 25, 1877

Always Loved, Never Forgotten.