remembering montreal

December 6, 2006

On this day seventeen years ago, Marc Lepine walked into L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and murdered fourteen female engineering students, simply because they were women. At the tender age of nine, it was a harsh reailty for me to accept and watching 'The National' with my mother that evening I had a lot of questions that could not logically be answered. Fourteen innocent lives were lost that day and countless more changed forever.

The threat of violence is something that every woman in the world deals with, thinks about and tries to avoid on a daily basis and sadly many women are unable to avoid daily violence, often from the men who are supposed to be their greatest protector. Women are the bearers of our future generations and we, as a society, must agree to end violence against women.

On this, of all days in the year, let's please take a moment to think about the gentle hands of the women who raised you and the women who've loved you, let us take a minute to think about the importance of peace for all of the world's men, women and children.




rest in peace

Anne-Marie Edward
Anne-Marie Lemay
Annie St Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Daigneault
Barbara Maria Klucznik
Genevieve Bergeron
Helene Colgan
Maryse Leclaire
Maryse Leganiere
Maud Haviernier
Michele Richard
Nathalie Croteau
Sonia Pelletier