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 ...
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. |
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. |
Montreal Massacre Commemorative Stone Memorial in front of the John Hodgins Engineering Building, McMaster University, Hamilton |
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. |
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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