December 6, 1989: we will always remember the fourteen women who were murdered on a snowy end-of-semester day 34 years ago at École Polytechnique, only a few kilometres from Dawson. Twelve of them were studying engineering, a traditionally male dominated field. The youngest three, Geneviève Bergeron, Anne-Marie Edward and Michèle Richard, were only 21 years old. The oldest, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, was 31 years old.

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Dawson and Community Resources for Gender-Based and Domestic Violence

We will always remember them:

• 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 in the École Polytechnique’s finance department
• 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