Jeanne Mance was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645. She returned twice to France to seek financial support for the hospital. After providing most of the care directly for years, in 1657 she recruited three sisters of the Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph, and continued to direct operations of the hospital. During her era, she was also known as Jehanne Mance contemporarily by the French, and as Joan Mance by the English contemporarily.
This is an article about literature in Quebec.
Marie-Claire Blais was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts.
Jocelyne Saucier is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.
Jeanne Lapointe was a Canadian academic and intellectual.
Jocelyne Felx is a Quebec literary critic and writer.
Rachel Leclerc is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Hélène Ouvrard was a Quebec writer.
Esther Croft is a Quebec educator and writer.
Louise Dupré is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Madeleine Gagnon is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer.
Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.
Suzanne Lebeau is a Québécois actor and writer.
Francine D'Amour is a Quebec educator and writer.
Lisa Carducci, also Li, Shasha; Li, Sha; 李沙莎; 李莎 is a Canadian writer of Italian descent living in China.
Maryse Pelletier is a Canadian actress and award-winning writer living in Quebec.
Mona Latif-Ghattas was an Egyptian-born Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec.
Hélène Pedneault was a Québécoise writer of many mediums who contributed much to the advancement of the feminist cause and also to Quebec sovereignty and the environment.
Jennifer Tremblay is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Paul Tom is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for his films Baggage (Bagages) and Alone (Seuls).
