Mission Bon Accueil / Welcome Hall Mission

A truly welcoming place. The staff and volunteers are kind, respectful, and genuinely caring. You can really feel the human values in how they treat people. Thank you for the great work you do for the community.

Thanks for giving us EXPIRED items !! You wanna kill us or what !! SHAME ON ALL OF YOU !! Pick up date 31st Dec 2025.

A great initiative for those in need.

They are really helping families with food

Food bank is always crowded. Some volunteers aren't the friendliest, but in general most staff is friendly. Phones don't always work properly and it's hard at times to get an appointment for the food bank and an appointment is always required.

They offer a lot of free services for new comers (french courses, workshops to find job, food bank, dental clinic, summer camps, income tax return services, etc) and low budget families. They have a Boutique were I've found fabulous clothes and perfumes super cheap. You got to visit.

The Staff and volunteers are cautious while helping hundreds of immigrant family settle down quickly. They offer an efficiently run food bank, boutique and other demographically specific services.

They r better than the NDG Food Depot (that only provides Noodles, choice of Tuna , or Salmon , Tomato sauce / crushed tomatoes . Eggs - six only and not all twelve ) Because the NDG Food Depot only gives the same stuff week after week, month after month, year after . . . Well, you get the idea ! And they give black bananas , bad condition food. The Welcome Hall Mission provides food, ( Fruit, vegetables ) drink( such as colas, milk, juices ) , Frozen meat all in very GOOD condition . I would recommend the Welcome Hall Mission to anyone !

The food bank at the Welcome Hall Mission (aka Mission Bon Accueil) gives out too much rotten food. They should separate that stuff out and throw it away, but this place is not well run. I've had pastries that were expired by three weeks or more. When I complained they cleaned up their act, but only for a little while before regressing back to the same state of affairs. And every supermarket-packed meat I've gotten from this food bank has been highly rancid, inedible, and I told them so yet they continue to distribute food from that same bad donor. A lot their stuff that IS edible shouldn't really be eaten by anyone - lots of sugar, fat and highly processed carbs. Examples: cookies, crackers, potato chips, pop, ice cream, pop tarts, and so on. This is only a good idea for people with no cooking facilities. Anyone else would be better off cooking oatmeal, which costs next to nothing. And the other food bank gives me all the pasta and rice I can eat, among other things, and they don't give out rotten food. I'm not sure if even our poorest citizens benefit from this place, in terms of healthy eating. I also suspect they are using the money they save on food to buy more tobacco. In any event, Canadians should not have to eat rotten food to survive, just in my humble opinion. Too bad we can't have something like food stamps like they have in the U.S.