Monique Worth (born May 21, 1944) is a former

city councillor A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counc ...

from

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, Canada. She served as the borough mayor for

Pierrefonds-Senneville Pierrefonds-Senneville is a former Montreal borough in the West Island area of Montreal, Quebec. It was formed by forced merger on January 1, 2002. After Senneville voted on June 20, 2004 to demerge from Montreal and returned to being an independe ...

from 2002 to 2005, and of

Pierrefonds-Roxboro Pierrefonds-Roxboro is a borough of the city of Montreal. It was created January 1, 2006, following the demerger of parts of the city. Geography It is composed of the former municipalities of Pierrefonds and Roxboro, spanning the northern par ...

from 2005 to 2013. She was a member of the

Union Montreal Union Montreal (french: Union Montréal) is an inactive municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the governing party in the city from 2001, when it won its first election under mayor Gérald Tremblay, until 2012. The party rem ...

municipal political party. She sat on the city of Montreal's executive committee where she was responsible for the portfolios of sustainable development, the environment, the exoterritories and blue spaces. Her career in politics began in 1989, following the death of her husband, Harry, a city councillor with the former city of Pierrefonds. The mayor at the time, Marcel Morin, urged her to campaign for her husband's former seat. She was would be elected in February 1990 and had sat on Pierrefonds city council until its merger with Montreal in 2001. After the merger, she was appointed borough mayor of the

borough because she had the largest number of votes. Following Senneville's demerger from the city of Montreal, the borough's borders were altered and the name changed to Pierrefonds-Roxboro. A native of the borough of

Verdun Verdun (, , , ; official name before 1970 ''Verdun-sur-Meuse'') is a large city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital ...

, Worth formerly worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 22 years and was at one time a political attaché to

Pierre Marsan Pierre Marsan (born June 29, 1948 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec politician. He was the member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Robert-Baldwin for the Quebec Liberal Party. Marsan went to the Université du Québec à Montr� ...

of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Municipal election history

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Monique Worth (Union Montreal)Monique Worth - Arrondissement de Pierrefonds-Roxboro
1944 births Living people Montreal city councillors Mayors of places in Quebec Women mayors of places in Quebec People from Pierrefonds-Roxboro People from Verdun, Quebec Women municipal councillors in Canada French Quebecers {{Quebec-mayor-stub