Louise Sauvé-Cuerrier (February 15, 1926 – September 16, 2023) is an educator and former politician in

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

. She represented Vaudreuil-Soulanges in the

Quebec National Assembly The National Assembly of Quebec (, ) is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members of the National Assembly; ). The lieutenant governor of Quebec (representing the King of Canada) and the Nat ...

from 1976 to 1981 as a

Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois (PQ; , ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishi ...

member. The daughter of Louis-Ovide Sauvé, a tramway conductor, and Germaine Descostes, she was born Louise Sauvé in

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 cit ...

. She studied at the École Normale Jacques-Cartier and the Institut pédagogique there and at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

, 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 teachers' 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 l ...

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 In-Commission or commissioning may refer to: Business and contracting * Commission (remuneration), a form of payment to an agent for services rendered ** Commission (art), the purchase or the creation of a piece of art most often on behalf of anot ...

from 1982 to 1992, when she retired. She received a bachelor's degree in law from the

Université Laval (; English: ''Laval University)'' is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university traces its roots to the Séminaire de Québec, founded by François de Montmorency-Laval in 1663, making it the oldest institutio ...

in 1985. She married Roger Cuerrier. He died in November 2016.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sauve-Cuerrier, Louise 1926 births 2023 deaths Parti Québécois MNAs Vice presidents of the National Assembly of Quebec 20th-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec