Simonne Monet-Chartrand was a feminist, a pacifist, a trade unionist and writer Quebec .
Born in Montreal in a bourgeois family, she studied at the school Marie Rose, owned by the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus. At this young age, she complained of unequal opportunities between boys and girls and lack of recreational activities for young girls.
During her youth, she admired her father, Amedeo Monet, who was a judge and a deputy. Her grandfather Dominique Monet was also a member who had opposed the Boer War.
At the age of twelve, she kept a diary where it shows her convictions for the first time by refusing to honor the war hero Dollard des Ormeaux. Having joined the Young Christian Students in 1937, she was recruited by Father Emile Legault, founder of the Companions of St. Lawrence.
Within this movement activist, she walks with influential figures such as Gerard Pelletier, Michel Chartrand, Jeanne Sauvé, Claude Ryan and Réal Charbonneau. She leads the boards at the provincial level.
In 1939 she accepted the cause of feminism, having learned that women were not allowed to vote in Quebec. It comes in letters to the University of Montreal in 1939 to 1942.
Having fallen in love with the unionist Michel Chartrand, her parents disapproved of her choice for this young man with an uncertain future. She had to go to Chicago, but she finally decided to return to Quebec in 1942 to marry him.
Abbe Groulx blesses their marriage at the Chapel of Notre Dame's Sacred Heart. She writes a solemn declaration of love to justify her decision.
Active during the conscription crisis, she joined the Bloc Populaire Canadien and positions of Henri Bourassa's newspaper Le Devoir.
The couple had campaigned actively in building a socialist society. When her husband Michel was imprisoned at the prison Parthenais during the October crisis , she wrote him love letters.
Sharing a common ideal, they remain together throughout their lives. Desiring to make the connection between all things, it conceives the unity of the cultural, political, physical and spiritual human being. Very religious, it draws its inspiration from the mystical Body of Christ, in whom she sees the symbol of perfection community.
During the 1950's, she helped women strikers led by her husband and organizing relief committees. She insisted that women can participate in labor negotiations.
Mother of seven children, she is one of the founders of the organization Voice of Women in 1960 and the Federation of Quebec Women in 1966. Within the Canadian government, it shall submit briefs to the Committee of Inquiry on the Status of Women in 1968. Freelance writer, she contributed to several magazines, including Chatelaine, La Vie en Rose and heads pick.
Working in union education Champlain, it occupies an important place in the Central educational institutions in Quebec, introducing a program of peace education in teaching. Monet-Chartrand was also involved in the Rhinoceros Party.
She traveled in the congresses of women in Western Europe, in Scandinavia and Russia and made her first contact with women in English Canada.
She was the organizer of the peace train, which came to Ottawa in 1962 to present the claims of women. Monet-Chartrand holds an international conference at the time of Expo 1967.
She was especially impressed by the feminist Gro Harlem Brundtland, who was the first woman to head the Norwegian. His travels lead her to the Middle East and Baghdad, where she represents the League of Human Rights in Quebec.
Meanwhile, she kept in contact with feminists in Quebec as Thérèse Casgrain Ghislaine Laurendeau, Solange Chaput-Rolland and Judith Jasmin. During the International Year of Women in 1975, she lectured throughout Quebec.
A pacifist, she opposed the Second World War, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and Gulf War. The war seemed immoral, inhumane and unjust, and it does not believe the just war. Her anti-nuclear position back to the explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 1978 and 1979, she returned to school at the Concordia University . In 1981, she published her first book, an autobiography entitled My Life as a river.
During the 1980s, she joined the group Artists for Peace. She participates in the International Year of Peace in 1986 and published her second book in 1988 entitled The Promise and the Challenge of Peace. Trained in history, she wrote the history of women in Quebec in 1990.
In 1992, she said that her last wish is for women equality in marital and social motherhood. Achieving generalized cancer, she died on 18 January 1993 and his funeral was celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua in Longueuil.
The filmmakers Alain Chartrand and Diana Cailhier have made a film in 1996 on the life of Simonne Monet-Chartrand entitled My Life as a river . They also produced a television series in 2000 called Simone and Chartrand with actors Luc Picard and Genevieve Rioux.
Born in Montreal in a bourgeois family, she studied at the school Marie Rose, owned by the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus. At this young age, she complained of unequal opportunities between boys and girls and lack of recreational activities for young girls.
During her youth, she admired her father, Amedeo Monet, who was a judge and a deputy. Her grandfather Dominique Monet was also a member who had opposed the Boer War.
At the age of twelve, she kept a diary where it shows her convictions for the first time by refusing to honor the war hero Dollard des Ormeaux. Having joined the Young Christian Students in 1937, she was recruited by Father Emile Legault, founder of the Companions of St. Lawrence.
Within this movement activist, she walks with influential figures such as Gerard Pelletier, Michel Chartrand, Jeanne Sauvé, Claude Ryan and Réal Charbonneau. She leads the boards at the provincial level.
In 1939 she accepted the cause of feminism, having learned that women were not allowed to vote in Quebec. It comes in letters to the University of Montreal in 1939 to 1942.
Having fallen in love with the unionist Michel Chartrand, her parents disapproved of her choice for this young man with an uncertain future. She had to go to Chicago, but she finally decided to return to Quebec in 1942 to marry him.
Abbe Groulx blesses their marriage at the Chapel of Notre Dame's Sacred Heart. She writes a solemn declaration of love to justify her decision.
Active during the conscription crisis, she joined the Bloc Populaire Canadien and positions of Henri Bourassa's newspaper Le Devoir.
The couple had campaigned actively in building a socialist society. When her husband Michel was imprisoned at the prison Parthenais during the October crisis , she wrote him love letters.
Sharing a common ideal, they remain together throughout their lives. Desiring to make the connection between all things, it conceives the unity of the cultural, political, physical and spiritual human being. Very religious, it draws its inspiration from the mystical Body of Christ, in whom she sees the symbol of perfection community.
During the 1950's, she helped women strikers led by her husband and organizing relief committees. She insisted that women can participate in labor negotiations.
Mother of seven children, she is one of the founders of the organization Voice of Women in 1960 and the Federation of Quebec Women in 1966. Within the Canadian government, it shall submit briefs to the Committee of Inquiry on the Status of Women in 1968. Freelance writer, she contributed to several magazines, including Chatelaine, La Vie en Rose and heads pick.
Working in union education Champlain, it occupies an important place in the Central educational institutions in Quebec, introducing a program of peace education in teaching. Monet-Chartrand was also involved in the Rhinoceros Party.
She traveled in the congresses of women in Western Europe, in Scandinavia and Russia and made her first contact with women in English Canada.
She was the organizer of the peace train, which came to Ottawa in 1962 to present the claims of women. Monet-Chartrand holds an international conference at the time of Expo 1967.
She was especially impressed by the feminist Gro Harlem Brundtland, who was the first woman to head the Norwegian. His travels lead her to the Middle East and Baghdad, where she represents the League of Human Rights in Quebec.
Meanwhile, she kept in contact with feminists in Quebec as Thérèse Casgrain Ghislaine Laurendeau, Solange Chaput-Rolland and Judith Jasmin. During the International Year of Women in 1975, she lectured throughout Quebec.
A pacifist, she opposed the Second World War, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and Gulf War. The war seemed immoral, inhumane and unjust, and it does not believe the just war. Her anti-nuclear position back to the explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 1978 and 1979, she returned to school at the Concordia University . In 1981, she published her first book, an autobiography entitled My Life as a river.
During the 1980s, she joined the group Artists for Peace. She participates in the International Year of Peace in 1986 and published her second book in 1988 entitled The Promise and the Challenge of Peace. Trained in history, she wrote the history of women in Quebec in 1990.
In 1992, she said that her last wish is for women equality in marital and social motherhood. Achieving generalized cancer, she died on 18 January 1993 and his funeral was celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua in Longueuil.
The filmmakers Alain Chartrand and Diana Cailhier have made a film in 1996 on the life of Simonne Monet-Chartrand entitled My Life as a river . They also produced a television series in 2000 called Simone and Chartrand with actors Luc Picard and Genevieve Rioux.
Simonne Monet-Chartrand was a feminist, a pacifist, a trade unionist and writer Quebec .
Born in Montreal in a bourgeois family, she studied at the school Marie Rose, owned by the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus. At this young age, she complained of unequal opportunities between boys and girls and lack of recreational activities for young girls.
During her youth, she admired her father, Amedeo Monet, who was a judge and a deputy. Her grandfather Dominique Monet was also a member who had opposed the Boer War.
At the age of twelve, she kept a diary where it shows her convictions for the first time by refusing to honor the war hero Dollard des Ormeaux. Having joined the Young Christian Students in 1937, she was recruited by Father Emile Legault, founder of the Companions of St. Lawrence.
Within this movement activist, she walks with influential figures such as Gerard Pelletier, Michel Chartrand, Jeanne Sauvé, Claude Ryan and Réal Charbonneau. She leads the boards at the provincial level.
In 1939 she accepted the cause of feminism, having learned that women were not allowed to vote in Quebec. It comes in letters to the University of Montreal in 1939 to 1942.
Having fallen in love with the unionist Michel Chartrand, her parents disapproved of her choice for this young man with an uncertain future. She had to go to Chicago, but she finally decided to return to Quebec in 1942 to marry him.
Abbe Groulx blesses their marriage at the Chapel of Notre Dame's Sacred Heart. She writes a solemn declaration of love to justify her decision.
Active during the conscription crisis, she joined the Bloc Populaire Canadien and positions of Henri Bourassa's newspaper Le Devoir.
The couple had campaigned actively in building a socialist society. When her husband Michel was imprisoned at the prison Parthenais during the October crisis , she wrote him love letters.
Sharing a common ideal, they remain together throughout their lives. Desiring to make the connection between all things, it conceives the unity of the cultural, political, physical and spiritual human being. Very religious, it draws its inspiration from the mystical Body of Christ, in whom she sees the symbol of perfection community.
During the 1950's, she helped women strikers led by her husband and organizing relief committees. She insisted that women can participate in labor negotiations.
Mother of seven children, she is one of the founders of the organization Voice of Women in 1960 and the Federation of Quebec Women in 1966. Within the Canadian government, it shall submit briefs to the Committee of Inquiry on the Status of Women in 1968. Freelance writer, she contributed to several magazines, including Chatelaine, La Vie en Rose and heads pick.
Working in union education Champlain, it occupies an important place in the Central educational institutions in Quebec, introducing a program of peace education in teaching. Monet-Chartrand was also involved in the Rhinoceros Party.
She traveled in the congresses of women in Western Europe, in Scandinavia and Russia and made her first contact with women in English Canada.
She was the organizer of the peace train, which came to Ottawa in 1962 to present the claims of women. Monet-Chartrand holds an international conference at the time of Expo 1967.
She was especially impressed by the feminist Gro Harlem Brundtland, who was the first woman to head the Norwegian. His travels lead her to the Middle East and Baghdad, where she represents the League of Human Rights in Quebec.
Meanwhile, she kept in contact with feminists in Quebec as Thérèse Casgrain Ghislaine Laurendeau, Solange Chaput-Rolland and Judith Jasmin. During the International Year of Women in 1975, she lectured throughout Quebec.
A pacifist, she opposed the Second World War, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and Gulf War. The war seemed immoral, inhumane and unjust, and it does not believe the just war. Her anti-nuclear position back to the explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 1978 and 1979, she returned to school at the Concordia University . In 1981, she published her first book, an autobiography entitled My Life as a river.
During the 1980s, she joined the group Artists for Peace. She participates in the International Year of Peace in 1986 and published her second book in 1988 entitled The Promise and the Challenge of Peace. Trained in history, she wrote the history of women in Quebec in 1990.
In 1992, she said that her last wish is for women equality in marital and social motherhood. Achieving generalized cancer, she died on 18 January 1993 and his funeral was celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua in Longueuil.
The filmmakers Alain Chartrand and Diana Cailhier have made a film in 1996 on the life of Simonne Monet-Chartrand entitled My Life as a river . They also produced a television series in 2000 called Simone and Chartrand with actors Luc Picard and Genevieve Rioux.
Born in Montreal in a bourgeois family, she studied at the school Marie Rose, owned by the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus. At this young age, she complained of unequal opportunities between boys and girls and lack of recreational activities for young girls.
During her youth, she admired her father, Amedeo Monet, who was a judge and a deputy. Her grandfather Dominique Monet was also a member who had opposed the Boer War.
At the age of twelve, she kept a diary where it shows her convictions for the first time by refusing to honor the war hero Dollard des Ormeaux. Having joined the Young Christian Students in 1937, she was recruited by Father Emile Legault, founder of the Companions of St. Lawrence.
Within this movement activist, she walks with influential figures such as Gerard Pelletier, Michel Chartrand, Jeanne Sauvé, Claude Ryan and Réal Charbonneau. She leads the boards at the provincial level.
In 1939 she accepted the cause of feminism, having learned that women were not allowed to vote in Quebec. It comes in letters to the University of Montreal in 1939 to 1942.
Having fallen in love with the unionist Michel Chartrand, her parents disapproved of her choice for this young man with an uncertain future. She had to go to Chicago, but she finally decided to return to Quebec in 1942 to marry him.
Abbe Groulx blesses their marriage at the Chapel of Notre Dame's Sacred Heart. She writes a solemn declaration of love to justify her decision.
Active during the conscription crisis, she joined the Bloc Populaire Canadien and positions of Henri Bourassa's newspaper Le Devoir.
The couple had campaigned actively in building a socialist society. When her husband Michel was imprisoned at the prison Parthenais during the October crisis , she wrote him love letters.
Sharing a common ideal, they remain together throughout their lives. Desiring to make the connection between all things, it conceives the unity of the cultural, political, physical and spiritual human being. Very religious, it draws its inspiration from the mystical Body of Christ, in whom she sees the symbol of perfection community.
During the 1950's, she helped women strikers led by her husband and organizing relief committees. She insisted that women can participate in labor negotiations.
Mother of seven children, she is one of the founders of the organization Voice of Women in 1960 and the Federation of Quebec Women in 1966. Within the Canadian government, it shall submit briefs to the Committee of Inquiry on the Status of Women in 1968. Freelance writer, she contributed to several magazines, including Chatelaine, La Vie en Rose and heads pick.
Working in union education Champlain, it occupies an important place in the Central educational institutions in Quebec, introducing a program of peace education in teaching. Monet-Chartrand was also involved in the Rhinoceros Party.
She traveled in the congresses of women in Western Europe, in Scandinavia and Russia and made her first contact with women in English Canada.
She was the organizer of the peace train, which came to Ottawa in 1962 to present the claims of women. Monet-Chartrand holds an international conference at the time of Expo 1967.
She was especially impressed by the feminist Gro Harlem Brundtland, who was the first woman to head the Norwegian. His travels lead her to the Middle East and Baghdad, where she represents the League of Human Rights in Quebec.
Meanwhile, she kept in contact with feminists in Quebec as Thérèse Casgrain Ghislaine Laurendeau, Solange Chaput-Rolland and Judith Jasmin. During the International Year of Women in 1975, she lectured throughout Quebec.
A pacifist, she opposed the Second World War, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and Gulf War. The war seemed immoral, inhumane and unjust, and it does not believe the just war. Her anti-nuclear position back to the explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 1978 and 1979, she returned to school at the Concordia University . In 1981, she published her first book, an autobiography entitled My Life as a river.
During the 1980s, she joined the group Artists for Peace. She participates in the International Year of Peace in 1986 and published her second book in 1988 entitled The Promise and the Challenge of Peace. Trained in history, she wrote the history of women in Quebec in 1990.
In 1992, she said that her last wish is for women equality in marital and social motherhood. Achieving generalized cancer, she died on 18 January 1993 and his funeral was celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua in Longueuil.
The filmmakers Alain Chartrand and Diana Cailhier have made a film in 1996 on the life of Simonne Monet-Chartrand entitled My Life as a river . They also produced a television series in 2000 called Simone and Chartrand with actors Luc Picard and Genevieve Rioux.
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