The Université du Québec à Montréal, also known as UQÀM, is a French-language public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec system.
Léa Pool C.M. is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who taught film at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has directed several documentaries and feature films, many of which have won significant awards including the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and she was the first woman to win the prize for Best Film at the Quebec Cinema Awards. Pool's films often opposed stereotypes and refused to focus on heterosexual relations, preferring individuality.
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie was a Canadian feminist. She was a professor at the Université de Montréal, and a self-taught legal expert. She was a pioneer of the feminist movement in Québec who co-founded the Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste with Caroline Dessaulles-Béique, an organization which campaigned for social and political rights for women.
Frédéric Liguori Béique, was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
The Congress of Democratic Trade Unions is a national trade union centre in Quebec formed on 8 June 1972 in response to a split within the Confederation of National Trade Unions Confédération des syndicats nationaux, CSN). It is the smallest of the four labour centres in Quebec, with about 4% of the union membership in the province.
Charles-Albert Poissant was a philanthropist and Québécois businessman.
Municipal politics in Montreal's city council revolve around its elected councillors, the municipal political parties to which they belong, and the mayor.
Simonne Monet-Chartrand was a Canadian labor activist, feminist writer, and pacifist.
Ruth Rose is a Quebec educator and feminist.
Diane Lamoureux is a Canadian professor, essayist, and writer. She serves as Professor of Sociology in the Political Science Department of Laval University in Quebec. Her research focuses on the intersection of politics, sociology, and feminism.
Ghislaine Nelly Huguette Sathoud is a Congolese feminist, primarily concerned with domestic violence.
Émile Ollivier was a Haitian-born educator and writer living in Quebec, Canada. He was considered one of the most important Haitian writers of his time.
Laurence Louppe was a French writer, critic and historian of dance, a specialist in the aesthetics of dance and visual arts and a choreographic artist.
Corinne Gendron (b.1968) is a Québécoise scholar, researcher, lawyer and sociologist, specializing in new forms of economic regulation and sustainable development. Gendron holds the Chair of Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development from the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she is a professor in the Department of Strategy, Social and Environmental Responsibility of the School of Management Sciences. She is a member of the Académie des technologies and a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour.
Mira Falardeau is a French Canadian historian, professor, and author of comic strips. Falardeau has devoted works to Québec animated films, Québec comic strips and caricatures in Québec, focusing on visual humour in all its forms. She taught as a professor of cinema and communication at Laval University and the University of Ottawa. Falardeau has also curated exhibitions in the visual arts and operated a small publishing house.
Léonie Couture is a Canadian feminist activist. She is the founder and director of Herstreet, an organization designed to help homeless women, mainly in the Montreal area.
Sophie Bissonnette is a Canadian director, editor, writer, and producer in the Quebec film industry. After graduating from Queen's University, she began creating films in Montreal. She released most of her documentary films in the 1980s. In these films, Bissonnette illustrated social and political justices, both of which were topics that were covered commonly by many Quebecois filmmakers. However, her films were distinguishable through exploring the women's perspective of male-dominated social engagements and incidents in French Canada.
Caroline Dessaulles-Béique was a Canadian social activist and feminist. She was one of the founders of the Provincial Housewife's School, which later became the home economics department of the Université de Montréal, and an advocate who pressed for the founding of juvenile courts. She was a co-founder of the first national feminist organization, the National Federation of Saint John the Baptist for French-speaking Canadian women.
Claude Lafortune was a Canadian paper artist, set decorator, and television personality.
Monique F. Leroux CM OQ is a Canadian businesswoman. From 2008 to 2016, she was chair of the Board and chief executive officer of Desjardins Group.
