Luc Bourdon was born on February 16, 1987, as an only child raised by his mother, Suzanne Boucher, in Shippagan, a small French-speaking town in the northeastern part of the Acadian Peninsula in New Brunswick.

[1] Upon turning professional and signing his first contract, he anonymously donated C$10,000 to the local minor hockey association for families who could not afford the equipment.

His donation was posthumously revealed by his former bantam hockey coach, Gilles Cormier, who managed the local arena at the time of Bourdon's death.

[8] He began the 2005–06 season with the Foreurs, registering 20 points in 20 games, before being traded to the Moncton Wildcats, who were hosting the 2006 Memorial Cup.

In exchange for Bourdon, the Wildcats sent Ian Mathieu-Girard, Jean-Sébastien Adam, a fourth-round pick, and a first-round selection in 2008 to Val-d'Or.

[9] Shortly after the trade, Bourdon injured his ankle, suffering a fractured fibula, high and low sprains, and a second-degree ligament tear.

[10] Competing in the Memorial Cup, he reached the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) final with the Wildcats, who lost 6–2 to the Quebec Remparts.

[11] After signing a three-year contract, worth $850,000 per year with the Canucks on May 4, 2006,[12] Bourdon earned a spot on the team's 2006–07 opening roster.

After his QMJHL season ended, the Canucks sent Bourdon to play five games for the Manitoba Moose, who were in the middle of the AHL playoffs.

[8] Bourdon made his international debut representing Team Canada in the 2005 World Under-18 Championships, held in the Czech Republic, earning one assist in a silver-medal effort.

[28] Bourdon was killed instantly in a head-on motorcycle collision in Lamèque, New Brunswick,[29] near his hometown of Shippagan on May 29, 2008, when he hit a tractor-trailer after losing control of his Suzuki GSX-R1000[30] and crossing the centre line.

[33][36] The American Hockey League, where Bourdon had played for the Manitoba Moose, observed a moment of silence in Bourdon's honour prior to game one of the Calder Cup Finals between the Chicago Wolves and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins just hours after the accident, and on May 31, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings observed a moment of silence before game four of the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals.

[39][40] Commemorative pins were handed out to fans attending the game and were worn throughout the season by General Motors Place hosts.

[43] A senior men's ice hockey team in New Brunswick, the Lameque/Shippagan Pêcheurs, also honoured him, wearing a "28 Bourdon" patch on their jerseys for the 2008–09 season.

[44] During the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Team Canada honoured Bourdon by wearing LB stickers in their opening game.