Today in Canada’s Political History: Birth of pioneering Quebec journalist and politician, Louise Marguerite Renaude Lapointe

Future Senator Renaude Lapointe was born on this date in 1912 at Disraeli, Quebec. She began her work as one of Canada’s first female journalists in the 1940s and wrote for both La Presse and Le Soleil. In the Red Chamber she became the first French-Canadian female Speaker of the Senate. Senator Renaude Lapointe served in the Senate until her retirement in 1997. Her contribution to Canadian society is a source of inspiration for the youth of this country.”Louise Marguerite Renaude Lapointe passed into history in 2002.