The Guignolée de la Société de Saint-Vincent de Paul, a tradition deeply rooted in Quebec for decades, provides significant support to people in need.

The traditional Guignolée is essential to the smooth running of the activities of the Société de Saint-Vincent de Paul de Montréal (Island of Montreal, Laval and MRC de l'Assomption). Last year, it allowed us to collect $523,653 in donations.

You can participate and make a difference through monetary donations, non-perishable food items or by making an online contribution!

Every November, SSVP volunteers get to work on one of our most important solidarity events of the year.

The Guignolée was Québec’s first door-to-door charity fundraiser, initiated in 1861 by the SSVP throughout the province’s small town communities to gather food for the needy.

The collection was – and still is – carried out in a festive manner, with carollers tagging along for the cause.

Many decades later, this annual tradition continues, thanks to the unrelenting actions of our vast solidarity network.