Hundreds of mourners braved bitterly cold weather to pay their last respects to Canada's 'godfather', drug trafficking mastermind Vito Rizzuto.
The 67-year-old was laid to rest in a gold casket following an hour-long mass at the Notre-Dame-de-la-Défense Church in Montreal yesterday.
Rizzuto's coffin was followed from the church by his two surviving adult children, Leonardo and Bettina, the Montreal Gazette reported.
Nine limousines waited in the street outside to transport the family as dozens of photographers, TV crews, onlookers gathered alongside police officers who were busy gaining intelligence from those who came to pay their respects to the Mafia boss.
Rizzuto, who ruled for decades at the helm of Montreal's Mafia, died of natural causes in a Montreal hospital on December 23.
His funeral was held in the same church where masses were held for his son Nick in 2009 and his father Nicolo in 2010.
Both were gunned down while Vito Rizzuto was held in prison in the US for his part in the murders of three Mafia bosses in New York in 1981.
Rizzuto's health problems first came to light in 2007 when he was up in front of an American judge, who sentenced him to the equivalent of 10 years behind bars.
The Mob boss, who oversaw a heroin and cocaine network that spanned the length and breadth of the country, told the judge two months earlier a doctor had recommended he have a CT scan after noticing a spot on his lung.
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