Marc Goudie tor replace Gale Chevalier as Chief of Frontenac Paramedic Services on September 30

Jeff Green | Jul 17, 2024

Marc Goudie, Frontenac Paramedics Deputy Chief of Performance Standards, has been appointed Paramedic Chief/Director, Emergency and Transportation Services for the County of Frontenac effective September 30, 2024.

“DC Goudie is eminently qualified, experienced, and equipped to lead Frontenac Paramedics into this next chapter as Chief,” said Frontenac County CAO Kevin Farrell. “He is already a great asset to Frontenac Paramedics and Frontenac County. I look forward to working with him into the future and extend my congratulations to him on this next step in his career.”

In hiring Goudy, Frontenac County is continuing a pattern that began in 2019, when the current Chief of Paramedic Services, Gale Chevalier, took on the role from Paul Charbonneau. Chevalier began her career as a Paramedic with the Hotel Dieu service in Kingston in 1994, and took on an Operations Supervisors role when Frontenac Paramedic Services (FPS) was established in 2007, taking over the Hotel Dire service in 2007. Before being names Chief, Chevalier was the Deputy Chief of Operations for the service, and had been the acting Chief for several months in late 2018 and early 2019, when Charbonneau was off on leave.

DC Goudie, who hold degrees from four universities in addition to his designations as a Primary Care and Advanced Care Paramedic, has not been with Frontenac Paramedic Services for quite as long a time as Chevalier had when she was named chief. He had been working for the Leeds and Grenville Paramedic Services as a part-time Superintendent/Supervisor until 2018, when he took on his current role with FP.

“Lifelong learning is increasingly integral to our evolving profession and DC Goudie has strong aptitude

and skill as a student, facilitator, instructor, and teacher,” says Chief Chevalier. “Those qualities make

him extremely valuable to the Frontenac Paramedics leadership team as is evidenced by his leadership

of the Community Paramedicine Program so far. DC Goudie is well equipped to be Chief, and I know I’ll

be leaving Frontenac Paramedics in capable hands.”