Simonne Monet-Chartrand
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Simonne Monet-Chartrand (born on November 4, 1919, Montréal
, Canada
– January 18, 1993, Richelieu
, Quebec
) was a Canadian activist. Simonne was married to Michel Chartrand
. She was heavily into women rights, and feminism
. She was a social activist and a speaker. During the fifties, she played a role in marriage preparation services, parent's schools, parent-teacher associations, family unions and cooperatives.
She was a strong leader for women. She also had time to make a family of seven with her husband, Michel Chartrand. In 1949 she was an advocate for asbestos
strikers with her husband, and later was the co-founder for the Simone de Beauvoir Institute dedicated to feminist studies. She also co-founded the Federation des femmes du Quebec
, the pacifist movement Voix des femmes
, and the Movement for Nuclear Disarmament.
In her professional career she was a radio and television writer and researcher for Radio Canada, was head of the public relations for the Syndicat des enseignants de Champlain, and was assistant director for the Human Rights League. She wrote two books; L'espoir et le défi de la paix (1988) and a four volume autobiography: Ma vie comme rivière (1981–1992). Her autobiography was first written and published in 1992, about a year before her death in her Richelieu home. The premier second edition was put out shortly after her death.
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
– January 18, 1993, Richelieu
Richelieu, Quebec
Richelieu is a city in Rouville Regional County Municipality, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 5,208...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
) was a Canadian activist. Simonne was married to Michel Chartrand
Michel Chartrand
Michel Chartrand was an union activist and leader from Quebec.Born in Outremont and trained as a typography and print worker, Chartrand become involved in union activism in the 1940s...
. She was heavily into women rights, and feminism
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
. She was a social activist and a speaker. During the fifties, she played a role in marriage preparation services, parent's schools, parent-teacher associations, family unions and cooperatives.
She was a strong leader for women. She also had time to make a family of seven with her husband, Michel Chartrand. In 1949 she was an advocate for asbestos
Asbestos
Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals used commercially for their desirable physical properties. They all have in common their eponymous, asbestiform habit: long, thin fibrous crystals...
strikers with her husband, and later was the co-founder for the Simone de Beauvoir Institute dedicated to feminist studies. She also co-founded the Federation des femmes du Quebec
Fédération des femmes du Québec
The Fédération des femmes du Québec is a feminist organization binding individuals and groups in a common goal to "promote and defend the interests and the rights of women and to fight against all forms of violence, discrimination, marginalization and exclusion towards women" in Quebec, Canada.-...
, the pacifist movement Voix des femmes
Voix des Femmes
La Voix des Femmes was a Parisian feminist newspaper, and later an organization dedicated to education and the advancement of women's rights. The newspaper was published daily beginning in 1848 with the fall of Louis Philippe and the emergence of the much more lenient French Second Republic...
, and the Movement for Nuclear Disarmament.
In her professional career she was a radio and television writer and researcher for Radio Canada, was head of the public relations for the Syndicat des enseignants de Champlain, and was assistant director for the Human Rights League. She wrote two books; L'espoir et le défi de la paix (1988) and a four volume autobiography: Ma vie comme rivière (1981–1992). Her autobiography was first written and published in 1992, about a year before her death in her Richelieu home. The premier second edition was put out shortly after her death.