Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie | |
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Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, 1920 | |
| Born | October 19, 1867 |
| Died | November 1, 1945 (aged 78) |
| Occupation | Academic |
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| Children | 4 |
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| Relatives | Marie-Joséphine Gérin-Lajoie (daughter) Justine Lacoste-Beaubien (sister) Thaïs Lacoste-Frémont (sister) Louis Lacoste (paternal grandfather) |
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie (19 October 1867 – 1 November 1945) was a Canadian feminist. She was a professor at the Université de Montréal, and a self-taught legal expert (her father and husband were both lawyers, and she had access to their books). She was a pioneer of the feminist movement in Québec who co-founded the Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste with Caroline Dessaulles-Béique (in 1907), an organization which campaigned for social and political rights for women.