Gaëtane de Montreuil

Gaëtane de Montreuil (1867 - 1951), of its true name Georgina Bélanger was a journalist and a Canadian écrivaine (Québécois). Its literary career begins in the pages of Le Monde illustrated, where she writes the heading the corner of Fire by being called Mrs. Merchant-Dandurand.

Starting from 1899, it writes the female heading For you Mesdames in the Press. It employs several pesudonymes, of which Clemencia, Aimée Patrie, Julia Patrie and Zig Zag.

In 1902, it marries the poet and painter Charles Gill, with whom it has a son named Roger-Charles. Montreuil is one of the first Canadian women to exert the Journalisme.

It opens a public school with her colleague Éva Circé-Side in 1909. She is the auteure of several novels and poems, of which the Fleur of waves in 1912. One of his/her friends is the poetess Anne-Marie Gleason.

Montreuil publishes in several reviews, of which the Country Laurentien , the Day and the Country . She helped to make known the poets of the literary École of Montreal.

Montreuil is replaced by Édouardina Lesage in 1923 in the pages of the Press. In 1928, it asks for the creation of an association of Canadian journalists.

Feminist of the first hour, it saw difficulties in his trade, his family and the company. She died in 1951.

The historian Réginald Hamel wrote his doctorate on his literary work. Louise Simard wrote the catch medallion while taking as a starting point its life.

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