Our history

TOGO becomes the only Quebec-based organization on Assistance Dog International’s candidate program list. Additionally, TOGO launched its puppy socialization program after completing an internship in Vancouver with our partners at VICD Service Dogs and BC & Alberta Service Dogs.

Our CEO was invited to give a lecture at Sorbonne Paris-Nord University during an international conference in France. She was accompanied by Spéro, one of our intervention dogs, and his handler, Marc-Olivier Yelle of CETAM, who also gave a presentation.

Our founder gives a meaningful interview that clearly outlines our foundation’s mission as part of the show The Future Belongs to Us.

TOGO is expanding its TOGO intervention dog program for frontline responders, and the beautiful Lexy-Lou is joining the 22-22 ambulance team.

A highlight in the history of the TOGO Foundation, which has become the exclusive partner in Canada of the Wounded Warriors Foundation. In total, more than 30 dogs have already been handed over, completely free of charge.

Noémie and Providence created the Evaluator Program because they were unable to evaluate all potential dogs and wanted to expand the program throughout Quebec.

Patricia Roy joined the ranks of TOGO employees as the Evaluator Program Coordinator. The organization now works with more than 30 partner shelters and has trained over 50 volunteers who are now qualified to evaluate dogs.

The company officially becomes a non-profit organization and obtains its charitable registration number. Oven-Baked partners with the TOGO Foundation and provides all the food for the dogs undergoing evaluation and training free of charge, in addition to raising funds in various ways.

Discover the story of TOGO, which began in 2015 thanks to Noémie Labbé-Roy, who was looking for a concrete way to help people in difficulty. She was working for a dog training company and was asked to volunteer to help a young woman who had adopted a dog from an Ontario shelter with the goal of training it as a service dog.

Noémie then discovered a new way to help, one that yielded interesting results through the use of a shelter dog. The idea for TOGO dogs began with this thought: “Why not give abandoned dogs a chance to become service dogs?”

Noémie, having developed all the training protocols for TOGO dogs, trained and hired Providence Gordon, the organization’s dog trainer, and Pascale Rabaraona, a TOGO psychosocial worker responsible for the intake of TOGO humans and families.