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The Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ; English: "Quebec Women's Federation") 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" [1] in Quebec, Canada.
Saint-Michel-des-Saints is the largest and northernmost municipality in the Lanaudière region (not considering the unorganized territories).The village itself is located at the northern end of Quebec Route 131 along the Matawin River, near the south-western corner of Taureau Reservoir.
Sainte-Rose-du-Nord (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t ʁoz dy nɔʁ]) is a village on the north shore of the Saguenay River in Quebec, Canada. The site was known, from 1801 to 1933, as La Descente-des-Femmes. Amerindian women awaited the return of the men from fishing, and would meet them by descending from the heights to the shore. [4]
Micheline Dumont CM CQ (born 1935) is a Canadian historian, lecturer and professor. She is a specialist in the history of women in Quebec.She is particularly known as the co-author, with Marie Lavigne, Jennifer Stoddart, and Michèle Stanton, of L'Histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles, the first synthesis on the subject.
The history of the Catholic Church in Canada extends back to the arrival of the earliest European explorers. A French priest accompanied the explorer Jacques Cartier, performing the first ever recorded Holy Mass on Canadian soil on July 7, 1534, on the shores of the Gaspé Peninsula.
The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie) [1] is a teaching religious institute founded at Longueuil, Québec, Canada, in 1843 by Blessed Mother Marie Rose Durocher [2] for the Christian education of young girls.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens had a population of 277 living in 148 of its 269 total private dwellings, a change of 9.1% from its 2016 population of 254. With a land area of 111.4 km 2 (43.0 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.5/km 2 (6.4/sq mi) in 2021. [4]
Saints-Anges (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃z‿ɑ̃ʒ]) is a municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 1,026 as of 2009. The town was established in 1880, with part of the seigneurie of Sainte-Marie.