Jean Dor, former mayor, remembered by Montrealers

Tributes are pouring in for former mayor Jean Dor who succumbed to pancreatic cancer on Monday.

• Jean Dor, former Montreal mayor, dead at 70

Montreal's mayor, Denis Coderre, formally acknowledgedDor's passing and offered his condolences to his family.

"He gave City Hall back to its citizens. He put Montreal back on track," said Coderre.

Luc Ferrandez, the leader of Projet Montral, lauded Dor for creating the first urbanplan for the city.

"Mr. Dor was a great mayor, but not just a great mayor. He has put the base for what we do today he invented it," he said.

Dor's former deputy chief of staff for communications, Benoit Gignac, said Dor was a communicatorwho "listened as well as he spoke."

"I will always remember hissmile," he added, before summarizing the political legacy of the former mayor.

"He will be remembered as a man of integrity, who ran anhonest administration."

The leader of the Parti Qubcois, Pierre Karl Pladeau, also extended his condolences to Dor's family, relatives and people who knew him during his career.

"It is with sadness that I learned of the death of this great Montrealer, he said in a statement.

"Jean Dor had an immense love and ambition for his city. He put citizens first," he wrote.