Sister Jeanne-d'Arc Bouchard (born 1929 in Sainte-Hedwidge) is a Québécoise nun and nurse.

Biography

In 1945, at the age of sixteen, Jeanne-d'Arc Bouchard joined the Augustinian congregation of the Mercy of Jesus of

Roberval, Quebec Roberval () is a city on the south-western shore of Lac Saint-Jean in the Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality of Quebec, Canada. With a population of 9,840 in the Canada 2021 Census, it is the fourth largest city on this lake after Alma ...

. In 1953 she graduated as a nurse and worked with alcoholics and drug addicts. In the 1960s Bouchard initiated the first public program that supported the families of her patients. Until 1989, she was in charge of the Rehabilitation Unit at

Hôtel-Dieu In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu () was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris being the oldest an ...

de Roberval. Sister Bouchard was a pioneer in the rehabilitation of

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and

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in Canada. In 1992 she was the first recipient of the award of excellence from the Quebec Association of Addiction Practitioners (AITQ); the award now bears her name. In 2000 Quebec Premier

Lucien Bouchard Lucien Bouchard (; born December 22, 1938) is a Canadian lawyer, diplomat and retired politician. A minister for two years in the 24th Canadian Ministry, Mulroney cabinet, Bouchard then founded and led the Bloc Québécois and became Leader ...

presented her with the Chevalier badge of the

National Order of Quebec The National Order of Quebec ( French: ), also known as the Order of Quebec, is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Quebec. Instituted in 1984 when Lieutenant Governor Jean-Pierre Côté granted royal assent to the (Natio ...

. In 2008 Bouchard was made a Member of the Order of Canada. A bronze bust of Bouchard by Jérémie Giles was erected in Roberval near the sculpture of Christ the King on the Rue Brassard.

References

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