19 Facts About Simonne Monet-Chartrand

Simonne Monet-Chartrand was a Canadian labor activist, feminist writer, and pacifist.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand was an advocate for syndicalist causes and a proponent of women in the labor movement.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1919.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand's parents were Aurore-Berthe Alain and Amedee Monet, who was a judge, as was her grandfather Dominique Monet.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand's family was well-off, spending summers on the Richelieu River in Beloeil.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand studied at a Catholic boarding school in Montreal, and began noting the inequalities between boys and girls at a young age.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand led the organization's provincial-level board of directors and began to work with a number of influential activist figures, including fellow Catholic youth leader Michel Chartrand.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand took up the cause of feminism beginning in the 1930s, fighting for women's right to vote in Quebec, which was the last province to institute women's suffrage.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand was a member of the socio-political committee for the Quebec Teachers Union, and in the '70s she worked for the teachers' union in Champlain, Quebec.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand was a co-founder of the Movement for Nuclear Disarmament.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand attended women's conferences in Europe and represented the Human Rights League of Quebec at conferences in the Middle East.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand organized the Peace Train's arrival in Ottawa in 1962 to present the demands of feminist pacifists.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand held a conference to express these demands during Expo 67.

In 1978 and 1979, Simonne Monet-Chartrand returned to her studies at Concordia University, where she co-founded the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, a college dedicated to feminist studies.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand worked as a journalist, contributing to various publications as a writer, including Chatelaine, La Vie en rose, and Les tetes de pioche.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand was a longtime writer, researcher, and presenter for Radio Canada, particularly for religious broadcasts and women's broadcasts.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand wrote a two-volume history of Quebec's women, published in 1990 and 1994.

Simonne Monet-Chartrand died of cancer on January 18,1993, in Richelieu.

In September 2023, Simonne Monet-Chartrand was one of three Quebec feminists and trade unionists, along with Madeleine Parent and Lea Roback, honoured by Canada Post with a postage stamp.