About us

Dave Bouthillier born and raised in Montreal, first tried a skateboard at the age of 5, then began continuously borrowed his neighbor’s generic board. Hustling by the early age of 10, enabled him to buy his first pro-skate at 13, which would be the same year his father passed away. Shortly after he was living on his own rolling around skating the city streets and expressing himself with graffiti. Then in 1994, the same year Peace Park was inaugurated, due to living a hectic life style, he left Montreal to live with his mom. Back out on the streets in 1996, he kept skating and painting in a city, which wasn’t his, writing MQC to represented his hometown Montreal Quebec Canada, only to return to Montreal in 1999.

Peace Park’s layout is a perfect for skateboarding therefore upon returning to Montreal Dave started skating in the park everyday to warm up and meet up with peps to go skate, since his old crew all stopped skating progressively. Then in 2001 he acquired a video camera for skateboarding. However the park being problematic is full of alcoholics, crack heads, convicts, hookers, hustlers, homeless, and rivaling gangs making it next to impossible get tricks filmed at Peace Park without being interrupted. There is always some kind of drama breaking out in the park, so he started turning his camera to the action with the intensions of releasing a shock value skate video.

At one point, his involvement with the park became recognized on an urban level. In 2004, he was asked to work as a skateboard consultant representing the skateboard community at Peace Park to the City of Montréal for the Société des arts technologiques (SAT) in their project to legalize skateboarding at Peace Park. And in recent years, the park’s history, natives, and its vibrant visitors have inspired him to release this narrated feature length documentary.

Today Dave continues to skate everyday with Control Skateboards while working on the Peace Park documentary.

This video will convey to its audience the history, which will include the skateboard and graffiti history at Peace Park, the role the park plays as an urban public space in Montréal’s heritage, and to create awareness about the group of people that occupy Peace Park because they represent a part of society that has important roots in Montréal’s history. However, they have often been unappreciated and perceived as un-deserving of a place in our society by the average citizen. The documentary will help elucidate the situation at Peace Park to all groups involved to better understand their “locals,” who are constantly being targeted and having their rights violated, and find ways of addressing the needs everyone who interacts with the park.