Michèle Laframboise (born July 14, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer and comics artist. [1]
The daughter of Québécois parents, she was born in London and studied geography at the Université de Montréal and civil engineering at the École Polytechnique de Montréal. She is also a self-taught illustrator. [1]
Her first novel Les nuages de Phoenix (2001) was awarded the Prix Cécile-Gagnon. She received Prix Aurora Awards in 2005 for Best novel in French ( Les Mémoires de l'Arc) and Best story in French ("Ceux qui ne comptent pas") and received another Aurora award in 2009 (La Quête de Chaaas); she was a finalist for another Aurora award in 2010. She received the Prix Solaris in 2010 and was a finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award in 2009. [1]
Gatineau is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is located on the northern bank of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario. Gatineau is the largest city in the Outaouais administrative region of Quebec and is also part of Canada's National Capital Region. As of 2021, Gatineau is the fourth-largest city in Quebec with a population of 291,041, and it is part of the Ottawa-Gatineau census metropolitan area with a population of 1,488,307 making it the fourth largest in Canada.
Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo is an Ivoirian-born Canadian poet and journalist. She has won the Trillium Book Award and been nominated for the Ottawa Book Award.
Mario Laframboise is a Canadian politician who served as mayor of Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix and Reeve of the Papineau MRC before getting into federal politics. In the 2000 Canadian federal election, Laframboise was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as the Bloc Québécois candidate in the riding of Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel. He was easily re-elected in the 2004, 2006 and 2008 elections, however he was defeated in the 2011 election by NDP's Mylène Freeman. A former notary, he was the Bloc critic to the Minister of Transport and later to the Minister of Infrastructure. He was also vice-president of the federal permanent committee of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
The Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario, also widely known as CEPEO, is the public school board responsible for education in the French language in Eastern Ontario, including the Ottawa area. The board consists of 12 trustees elected every 4 years during municipal elections in Ontario and 2 student trustees elected every year. The area in which the board operates covers 40,314 km2 of Ontario. It employs more than 3000 employees, the majority being teachers.
Solaris is a Canadian francophone science-fiction and fantasy magazine.
Joël Champetier was a French-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author.
The 67th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Anticipation, was held on 6–10 August 2009 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Francine Pelletier is a Canadian science fiction writer, whose work often features strong female protagonists. She has been a winner of several literary prizes for science fiction, including the Prix Aurora Award.
Yves Meynard is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer. He writes in both English and French.
Éric Gauthier is a Québécois writer and storyteller. He primarily writes science fiction and fantasy novels and novellas. He has won the prix Boréal four times ; the prix Solaris three times ; and the prix Jacques-Brossard three times.
Jean-Louis Trudel is a Canadian science fiction writer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and has lived in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal before moving to Quebec City, Quebec in 2010. He teaches history part-time at the University of Ottawa.
Joëlle Morosoli is a French-Canadian sculptor of French and Swiss descent. Her work takes the form either of installations or of architecturally integrated art in public buildings. Most of her works have moving parts, driven by mechanical systems.
Andrée Christensen is a Franco-Ontarian writer and visual artist.
Lysette Brochu is a French-Canadian writer. She was born in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and was educated at the University of Ottawa. She received her certification for teaching in Ontario and also studied theology. She earned a MEd with concentration in education counselling. Brochu taught secondary school and at Saint Paul University and at the Université du Québec en Outaouais.
Estelle Beauchamp is a Canadian educator and writer.
Spring snowfall and heavy rain caused floods in southern Quebec on 3 May 2017. In total, 5,371 residences were flooded, 4,066 people were forced from their homes, and 261 municipalities were affected, largely in the Outaouais Region, the Greater Montreal Area, the Montérégie, the Mauricie, the Gaspésie and the Côte-Nord regions. The floods were listed as the third most significant weather event of 2017 by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.
Héloïse Côté is a Québécoise author of fantasy novels and a researcher in the sciences of education.
Andrée Poulin is a Canadian writer. She was born in Orleans, Ontario, now part of Ottawa. She worked as a journalist before becoming a full-time writer. Poulin now lives in Gatineau, Quebec.
Jean-Pierre Guillet is a French-Canadian writer born in Iberville, Quebec, in 1953.