DECEMBER 6 EVENTS

5:30 pm

Malaspina University College Dec. 6 Memorial
Wednesday December 6 in the memorial garden in front of Building 360

6pm to 9pm

In cooperation with the MFA Status of Women Committee and the Nanaimo Women’s Centre, Remembrance and Renewal: A National Day of Action will be held in building 355 of the Malaspina University College campus.

BACKGROUND on the Montreal Massacre

On December 6, 1989, on the campus of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, 14 women lost their lives in a shooting now known as the Montreal Massacre.

The murdered women were:
Geneviève Bergeron, aged 21; Hélène Colgan, 23; Nathalie Croteau, 23; Barbara Daigneault, 22; Anne-Marie Edward, 21; Maud Haviernick, 29; Barbara Maria Klucznik, 31; Maryse Leclair, 23; Annie St.-Arneault, 23; Michèle Richard, 21; Maryse Laganière, 25; Anne-Marie Lemay, 22; Sonia Pelletier, 28; and Annie Turcotte, aged 21.

These women's lives were cut short simply because they were women.

The anniversary of this event has become a day of remembrance, and in 1991, the Parliament of Canada named December 6 the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

For more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_Massacre

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-398/disasters_tragedies/montreal_massacre/

http://gendercide.org/case_montreal.html