Louise Sauvé-Cuerrier (born February 15, 1926) is an educator and former politician in
Quebec. She represented
Vaudreuil-Soulanges in the
Quebec National Assembly
The National Assembly of Quebec (officially in french: link=no, Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the Legislature, legislative body of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members ...
from 1976 to 1981 as a
Parti Québécois member.
The daughter of Louis-Ovide Sauvé, a tramway conductor, and Germaine Descostes, she was born Louise Sauvé in
Montreal. She studied at the École Normale Jacques-Cartier and the Institut pédagogique there and at the
Université de Montréal, receiving training in teaching for the physically disabled. She taught for the Catholic school board in Montreal and the
Vaudreuil school board.
[ She also established a day-care facility in Pierrefonds. She was a representative for the teacher's union in the ]Mille-Isles
Mille-Isles is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, west of Saint-Jérôme.
Mille-Isles is in the Laurentian Hills, crossed by rivers and dotted with fish-filled lakes.
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area.[
She was a warden for Notre-Dame-de-la-Protection parish.][
She ran unsuccessfully as a Parti Québécois candidate in Vaudreuil-Soulanges in 1973. She was elected in 1976 but was defeated when she ran for reelection in 1981. She was deputy speaker for the assembly from December 1976 to May 1981.][
She was a member of the ]Commission municipale du Québec The ''Commission municipale du Québec'' (English: Quebec Municipal Commission) is a quasi-judicial body that oversees municipal matters in the Canadian province of Quebec. The commission was founded in 1932 by the government of Louis-Alexandre Tas ...
from 1982 to 1992, when she retired. She received a bachelor's degree in law from the Université Laval in 1985.
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1926 births
2016 deaths
Parti Québécois MNAs
Vice Presidents of the National Assembly of Quebec