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Lise Thibault was the eldest
daughter of Paul Trudel and Laurenza Wolfe. She was
educated at a number of boarding schools in the
Lanaudière and Montreal regions, including
the Académie Marie-Anne de Montréal,
and then went on to teachers' college in
Saint-Jérôme. When she was still just
a teenager, a bad tobogganing accident left her
with a permanent disability, but having to use a
wheelchair has never slowed her down. She married
René Thibault on November 21, 1959, and they
began their life together in Saint-Hypolite. They
have two children and five grandchildren.
Lise Thibault taught with the
adult education department of the Milles-Îles
and Des Écores school boards from 1973 to
1978. She worked for
Télé-Métropole from 1977 to
1981 and for the CBC from 1982 to 1984, as a host
and researcher for programs about family and
community issues. In 1977, she was appointed to the
Quebec Ministry of Education's Commission de
surveillance de la langue d'enseignement. Later she
took on the chairmanship of the Canada Day
celebrations (1983-1984) and then became Vice
President (Relations with Beneficiaries) for
Quebec's Commission de la santé et
sécurité au travail (1987-1993). She
was President and CEO of the Office des personnes
handicappées du Québec from 1993 to
1995. On January 30, 1997, she was sworn in as
Quebec's 27th Lieutenant Governor -- the first
woman to occupy the position.
Very involved in the
community, Lise Thibault has been on the boards of
a number of organizations: the Fondation Marie-Paul
de Sainte-Véronique (1985-1995); the
Canadian Red Cross Society (1985-1987); the
Régie des rentes du Québec
(1987-1995); the Office des personnes
handicappées du Québec (1992-1993).
She has played an active part in cultural and
community activities: founding secretary of the
newspaper La Chaîne (1972); editor of the
Journal des femmes d'aujourd'hui (1973-1976);
member of the Union des artistes (1978-1987). She
has been a contributor to the magazine Le temps de
vivre (1982-1984); member, secretary and chair of a
number of school councils (1964-1972); vice
president of the Cercle des fermières
(1971-1973); moving force behind the establishment
of a chair in hepatology at the Université
de Montréal (1995); member of the Cercle des
femmes journalistes (1984-1987).
In 1994, Lise Thibault was
given the YMCA's "Femme de Mérite" award for
her involvement in the community. The same year,
she was named "Personality of the Year" by
Châtelaine magazine. She is a woman with a
fine mind and a warm heart, who has dedicated
herself to the well-being of the people around
her.
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