Émilie Leblanc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian teacher and activist
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Place of Birth: Memramcook, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada
About Émilie Leblanc
- Émilie Leblanc (May 14, 1863 – December 19, 1935) was a Canadian educator and Acadian activist. The daughter of Mathilde and Calixte LeBlanc, she was born in College Bridge, New Brunswick.
- A series of 13 letters written by Leblanc appeared in the Weymouth newspaper L'Évangéline between February 1895 and February 1898 under the pseudonym Marichette.
- Marichette was supposedly an elderly Acadian woman with many children, unlike Leblanc herself, who was young and had no children.
- Her first letter spoke in favour of giving women the right to vote.
- The letters also spoke of the importance of preserving the Acadian culture, language and religion and condemned political corruption and the unfair treatment of the Acadians.
- The newspaper's owner Valentin Landry eventually bowed to social pressure and stopped publishing Marichette's letters.Leblanc married Jos Honoré Carrier, an accountant.
- She taught school in Weymouth for a number of years before returning to New Brunswick.She died in Moncton and was buried in Memramcook.
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