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Azilda Lapierre Marchand
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Azilda Lapierre Marchand (8 December 1918 – 9 May 2010) was a Québécoise teacher and women's rights advocate, who worked to change the perception of women and their roles in French-Canadian society. Recognizing that many women worked as unpaid labourers either within the family or within family businesses, she became a vocal advocate for their service to be recognized as valuable. A founding member of the Women's Association for Education and Social Action, she served as president of the organization between 1970 and 1975. Participating in numerous international conferences and government commissions, she advocated for improved access to education and civil participation by women. She was a recipient of the Order of Canada and honoured as a knight in the National Order of Quebec.
Azilda Lapierre was born on 8 December 1918 in Ange-Gardien, Quebec, Canada. After completing her secondary education in Catholic schools, she graduated from the Marier-Rivier Normal School in Saint-Hyacinthe and married Jean-Maurice Marchand of Ange-Gardien, with whom she would have nine children.
Marchand began her career as a teacher, in primary and secondary schools, later participating in adult education. In 1937, she founded the Women's Catholic Agricultural Youth Movement (Mouvement Jeunesse agricole catholique féminine) in conjunction with the Catholic Agricultural Youth movement in Quebec. The organization had been founded in France during the Great Depression as a means to revitalize rural youth, since the First World War had depopulated the countryside and sent many young people to urban areas. The organization recognized the isolation of rural populations and attempted to bring youth back to religion and moral lives by assisting them through the development of educational opportunity and recreational activities.
In the 1950s, she joined the Union of Catholic Rural Women (L'Union catholique des femmes rurales) and in 1961, she became the president of the Saint-Hyacinthe branch, serving in that capacity until 1966.
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