December 6

Quiet day. Sent off my brother, dropped off the boys at Day Camp, and now I'm studying Property.

I think we'll do something with the boys tonight to mark December 6th. It's hard to believe it's been 14 years. Doesn't seem that far away.

I always wonder what the women who were killed that day would have been doing now if they had lived. Most of them were in their early twenties, finishing engineering degrees; two were giving their final dissertation that day. By now I suppose most of them would have been working in their field, maybe married, with kids. Instead they're names that many of us read every December 6th, reminding us of so much that we'd sometimes really rather forget.

Geneviève Bergeron

Hélène Colgan

Nathalie Croteau

Barbara Daigneault

Anne-Marie Edward

Maud Haviernick

Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz

Maryse Laganière

Maryse Leclair

Anne-Marie Lemay

Sonia Pelletier

Michèle Richard

Annie St-Arneault

Annie Turcotte


Found two very old articles written around the time of the massacre... re-reading them, it makes me wonder how much has really changed.

( Our Daughters, Ourselves )

( We mourn all our daughters )