Idola Saint-Jean
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Idola Saint-Jean 🇨🇦

Idola Saint-Jean (Known as "Idola Saint-Jean")
Quebec Suffragist, Educator, Founder of the Alliance Canadienne pour le Vote des Femmes
Born May 19, 1880 🇨🇦 Montreal, Canada
Passed Away Apr 06, 1945 Montreal, Canada
Lifespan 64 years old
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Passionate Montreal suffragist, actress, and educator who founded the Alliance canadienne pour le vote des femmes and became the first French Canadian woman to run for the federal parliament in 1930.

Biographical Record

Saint-Jean studied elocution in Paris before teaching French at McGill University. In 1927, breaking with more conservative suffragists, she founded the Alliance canadienne pour le vote des femmes du Québec to organize working-class women directly.

In 1930, she stood as an independent candidate for Montreal-Saint-Denis, becoming the first French Canadian female candidate for federal parliament. Through her journal La Sphère féminine, she championed equal wages, married women's civil capacity, and labor protections until her death.

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Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery
Montreal, Canada
GPS: 45.4986, -73.6053
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