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Antifeminism, misogyny. The École Polytechnique massacre ( French: tuerie de l'École polytechnique ), also known as the Montreal massacre, was an antifeminist mass shooting that occurred on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. Fourteen women were murdered; another ten women and four men were injured.
Jan 5, 2012 · Last Edited March 29, 2021. On 6 December 1989, a man entered a mechanical engineering classroom at Montreal ’s École Polytechnique armed with a semi-automatic weapon. After separating the women from the men, he opened fire on the women while screaming, “You are all feminists.”. Fourteen young women were murdered, and 13 other people ...
Dec 4, 2019 · Last modified on Wed 4 Dec 2019 08.20 EST. L ate in the afternoon on 6 December 1989, a young man walked into Montreal’s Polytechnique engineering school with a semi-automatic rifle and killed ...
- Annie St-Arneault. was curious, meticulous, intensely caring and always searching for adventures of her own making. St-Arneault, the only daughter and youngest of three children, was 23 when she was killed while attending what was to be her final class before graduating from mechanical engineering studies.
- Hélène Colgan. was 23 years old in early December 1989, just weeks shy of a planned trip somewhere warm with her friends to ring in the new year. It would have been a well-deserved rest, according to her father.
- Nathalie Croteau. was outgoing and enterprising with a passion for learning, particularly when it came to science. Croteau was 23 when she was killed, just a couple of weeks shy of celebrating New Year’s Eve in the hot sun in Cancun, Mexico with her close friends, Hélène Colgan included.
- Barbara Daigneault. was not someone bound by conventional limits. When she was just seven years old, she asked why she could never become pope. She would ultimately follow in her father’s footsteps and study engineering.
Dec 5, 2019 · Anne-Marie Edward, a 21-year-old chemical engineering student, was shot to death at École Polytechnique. (Submitted by the Edward family) This year — 30 years after the attack — the city ...
Dec 6, 2023 · Thirty-four years ago today, on Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were killed and another 13 were injured at École Polytechnique by a man motivated by hatred of feminists. For each victim, a beam of light ...
