Patriot of the Year

Patriot of the Year (in French: Patriote de l'année) is an honorary title created in 1975. It is awarded by the patriotic Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society to people "having distinguished [themselves] in the defense of the interests of Quebec and the democracy of peoples, in memory of the Patriotes of the 1830s."

Laureates

*1975: Madeleine Chaput and Marcel Chaput
*1976: François-Albert Angers
*1977: Camille Laurin
*1978: Andrée Bertrand-Ferretti
*1979: Raymond Barbeau
*1980: Raymond Lévesque
*1981: Jean Duceppe
*1985: Jacques Parizeau
*1986: Gaston Cholette
*1987: Gilles Vigneault
*1987: Fernand Roberge
*1987: Jacques Henripin
*1987: Pierre Harvey
*1987: Rolland A. Pinsonneault
*1987: Gérald LeBlanc
*1987: Yvonne Hubert
*1987: André Brassard
*1987: Gérald Godin
*1987: Claude Gosselin
*1987: Gilles Proulx
*1987: Lorraine Pagé
*1988: Mia Riddez-Morisset
*1989: Louis Laberge
*1990: Serge Turgeon
*1991: Jacques Proulx
*1992: Carmen Sabag-Olmedo
*1993: Jean-Claude Germain
*1994: Paul Piché
*1995: Monique Vézina
*1996: Gérald Larose
*1997: Yves Michaud
*1998: Fernand Daoust
*1998: Jean-Marc Léger
*2000: Jean-Marie Cossette
*2001: Marcel Tessier
*2002: Pierre Falardeau
*2003: Georges Aubin and Renée Blanchet
*2004: Luck Mervil
*2005: Louise Laurin
*2006: Bernard Landry
*2007: Loco Locass

References

* [http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/liste.jsp?titreListe=24 "Liste des Lauréates et lauréats du prix Patriote de l'année"] at Bilan du Siècle

See also

*Parti patriote
*Patriote Rebellion
*Quebec nationalism
*Patriotism
*Awards