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PolytechniqueMtl dec6 plaque
Plaque on the exterior wall of École Polytechnique
commemorating the victims of the massacre

 

 These are names we remember today, 
The National Day of Remembrance and Action
on Violence Against Women


Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk at École Polytechnique
Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

 

And these memorials are part of how we remember them ...

 

PolytechniqueMtl dec6 plaque
Place du 6-Décembre-1989 , Montreal, featuring the artwork
Nef pour quatorze reines by Rose-Marie Goulet.
Fourteen blocks are each linked to a band of black granite
bearing the name of one of the victims.
PlaceDu6Dec Nef pour quatorze reines detail

 

 

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 MarkerofChange detail



Marker of Change,
in Vancouver's Thornton Park,
a memorial consisting of
14 pink granite benches
enclosed by a 100-foot circle
of pink granite stones,
by artist Beth Alber.

Each bench is inscribed with
the name of one of the 14 women.
 

 

 

PolytechniqueMtl dec6 plaque
Montreal Massacre Commemorative Stone Memorial in front of the
John Hodgins Engineering Building, McMaster University, Hamilton

 

 

PolytechniqueMtl dec6 plaque
The Ottawa Women's Monument is a public monument that honours the lives
of local women and girls murdered by men between 1990 and 2000.
Located in Ottawa's Minto Park, off of Elgin Street,
Enclave was created by artist C. J. Fleury
and landscape architect Mary Leigh Faught.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
will be observed at this site.

 

 

PolytechniqueMtl dec6 plaque
Fourteen beams of light – one for each woman – rise from the
Kondiaronk lookout on top of Montreal's Mount Royal,
part of the annual December 6 memorials.

 

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