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Thérèse Cadorette
Thérèse Cadorette (1925 – 2007) was a Québécois writer and actress. A square in Montreal, Quebec, was renamed to honour her in 2016, as part of the Toponym'elles initiative. Thérèse Cadorette began her career in theatre with the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent. She later pursued a career in television and was cast in roles for ''La famille Plouffe ''La famille Plouffe'' was a Canadian television drama, more specifically a téléroman, about a Quebec City family that first aired in the French language on Société Radio-Canada in 1953. The show was created to fill a void in francophone tel ...'' and '' Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut''. On November 25, 2016, a local square was officially renamed Square Thérèse-Cadorette as part of Montreal's efforts to improve the representation of women in public spaces. References 1925 births 2007 deaths {{Canada-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Métro (Montreal Newspaper)
''Métro'' (also called ''Métro Montréal'' or ''Journal Métro'') was a French-language free daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The paper was wholly owned by local businessman Michael Raffoul, who owns print media distribution company Transmet. Journal Metro was part of the Metro Media group, which owned several neighbourhood-level and burough-level newspapers in Montreal and in Quebec City. ''Métro'' was formerly part of the international group of newspapers Metro International. History The paper was founded in 2001, by Montreal-based Transcontinental which licensed the brand from Metro International, itself founded in 1995. It was part of several free ''Metro'' papers launched across Canada and in other countries under various licensees. From its inception in 2001, it held a franchise as the sole French-language free daily newspaper to be distributed inside the Montreal Metro system and STM bus terminals In 2010, Journal Metro lost its franchise to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Québécois People
(; also known as Quebecers or Quebeckers in English) are people associated with Quebec. The term is most often used in reference to either descendants of the French settlers in Quebec or people of any ethnicity who live and trace their origins to the province of Quebec. Self-identification as Québécois became dominant starting in the 1960s; prior to this, the francophone people of Quebec mostly identified themselves as French Canadians and as ''Canadiens'' before anglophones started identifying as Canadians as well. A majority in the House of Commons of Canada in 2006 approved a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which stated that the Québécois are a nation within a united Canada.Michael M. Brescia, John C. Super. ''North America: an introduction''. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. 72. Harper later elaborated that the motion's definition of Québécois relies on personal decisions to self-identify as Québécois, and therefore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponym'elles
Toponym'elles is an initiative that was started to improve toponymic representation of women's contributions to Montreal by renaming public spaces such as parks and streets, as only 6% of places were named after women. Initially, Toponym'elles was created to include 375 names to commemorate the 375th anniversary of Montreal's founding. It was launched on March 2, 2016, a few days before International Women's Day. Montreal is the first city in Quebec to have created a database of this kind. The creation of a similar open name database was requested in Sherbrooke in 2018, but this request did not receive any follow-up. Database Thérèse Cadorette was the first woman to be honoured by this initiative, with a square being named after her in 2016. Among the first places named according to the Toponym'Elles database, notable locations also include the Ethel-Stark, Jovette-Marchessault, and Julie-Hamelin parks, as well as Grace-Hopper and Jacqueline-Sicotte streets Alice-Guy Crescent, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compagnons De Saint-Laurent
Les Compagnons de Saint-Laurent was a Quebec theatre company that was founded in 1937 and dissolved in 1951. According to The Canadian Encyclopedia, it was the "most influential theatrical company in the history of Québec". History The company was founded in August 1937 at Cégep de Saint-Laurent, Collège de Saint-Laurent in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, by , , and Léonide Lavinge. Productions were initially religious in nature. The troupe also produced a magazine entitled Les Cahiers des Compagnons. In 1947, Les Compagnons de Saint-Laurent were awarded the Trophée Bessborough at a festival in London, Ontario. Notable actors * * Jean-Louis Roux * Jean Gascon * Georges Groulx * Guy Provost * Denise Pelletier * Gilles Pelletier * Hélène Loiselle * Jean Coutu (actor), Jean Coutu * Guy Mauffette * Félix Leclerc * Lucille Cousineau * Denise Vachon * Thérèse Cadorette * Jean Duceppe * * * Gabriel Gascon * Charlotte Boisjoli * Jean-Pierre Masson Legacy In 1996, a park was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Famille Plouffe
''La famille Plouffe'' was a Canadian television drama, more specifically a téléroman, about a Quebec City family that first aired in the French language on Société Radio-Canada in 1953. The show was created to fill a void in francophone television in Canada. Whereas the English Canadian television branch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation could broadcast English-language shows from American stations, the francophone component of the CBC, Radio-Canada had to develop its own programs for French Canadian viewers from the earliest days of television in Canada. This show was one of the few that helped to launch the téléroman genre of programming in French Canada, around the same time the first telenovelas aired in Latin America. The series was also broadcast live in English as ''The Plouffe Family'' on CBC Television the following year and ran on both networks until 1959. The series was revived in the 1980s as a miniseries. The series was based on the novel '' Les Plou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Belles Histoires Des Pays D'en Haut
''Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut'' (''The Beautiful Stories of the Upper Countries'') is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from October 8, 1956, to June 1, 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the history of Canadian television, the series produced 495 episodes during its 14-year run"Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut" at . and was one of the first influential '' téléromans''. Written by Claude-Henri Grig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria (1925–1930), State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship. * January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas. * January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. * January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic. February * February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
