Help and method
Help lines and this guide
Help with gambling in Québec is free and confidential by phone at any hour, and there is also a chat. The second half of this page explains how the Kahnawake Guide team checks its facts.
By the Kahnawake Guide teamChecked October 13, 2026
Any hour
Where to turn
- Gambling: Help and Referral answers 24/7 at 1-800-461-0140 anywhere in Québec, or at 514-527-0140 in the Montréal area. Calls are free, confidential and bilingual.
- Québec residents can also chat with Gambling: Help and Referral at aidejeu.ca.
- The Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission runs self-exclusion, a request to be kept out of venues, for all its licensed land-based venues. The form goes to venue management or the KGC with a photo and two government IDs.
Before you go
Set a limit first
Decide on a time limit and a money limit before leaving home. Bring only the money set aside for the visit. Plan the ride home before the first hand, and settle who drives or which bus to catch. When either limit is reached, the visit ends. The legal gambling age in Québec is 18, and the KGC's land-based regulations protect people under 18.
Method
About this guide
The Kahnawake Guide team writes and signs every page together. No page carries a personal byline, and the site has no named author. The pictures are generated scenes without people. One photograph comes from Wikimedia Commons and is credited where it appears.
Facts were checked on October 13, 2026. Sources were the venue's pages, the Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission, the restaurants' own sites, Gambling: Help and Referral and Québec government sources. Distances are straight lines between map coordinates from OpenStreetMap, so roads are longer.
This site has no forms, comments or accounts. It keeps nothing about readers except the colour theme chosen in the browser tab.
Questions
Short questions, short answers
- Is the help line free?
- Yes, the line is free. Gambling: Help and Referral is also confidential and bilingual, and it answers 24/7. Call 1-800-461-0140 anywhere in Québec or 514-527-0140 in the Montréal area.
- Can the help line take text messages?
- No text-message line was found. Québec residents can chat at aidejeu.ca or call 1-800-461-0140.
- Who writes this guide?
- The Kahnawake Guide team writes and signs it. That is a collective name, not a person, and no page carries a personal byline. The guide is independent and is not the venue's own site.