- Renaude Lapointe
Louise Marguerite Renaude Lapointe, PC , CC (
January 3 ,1912 –May 11 ,2002 ) was a Canadian journalist and a Senator. She was among the first Canadian women to work as a professional journalist and the first French-Canadian woman to preside over the Senate.Born in
Disraeli, Quebec , the daughter ofJoseph-Alphonse Lapointe and Marie-Louise Poulin, she worked as a journalist in the 1940s and 1950s at "Le Soleil " inQuebec City . In 1959 she joined the staff ofMontreal 's "La Presse ".A member of the
Liberal Party of Canada , she was appointed to the Senate in 1971 byPierre Trudeau and served until her retirement in 1987. FromSeptember 12 ,1974 untilOctober 4 ,1979 , she was Speaker of the Senate. She was also Speaker "pro tempore" fromJune 9 ,1982 untilNovember 30 ,1983 .In 1989 she was made a Companion of the
Order of Canada .External links
* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=d47b25f3-048f-48fd-8f91-fb66fcb00105&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=2632 Order of Canada Citation]Persondata
NAME = Lapointe, Renaude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Lapointe, Louise Marguerite Renaude
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Canadian journalist and Senator
DATE OF BIRTH =January 3 ,1912
PLACE OF BIRTH =Disraeli, Quebec ,Canada
DATE OF DEATH =May 11 ,2002
PLACE OF DEATH =
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