Event remembers Montreal Massacre
PRINCE GEORGE – “It was in 1989, and some shooter went after engineering students and in particular women at the École Polytechnique in Quebec,” recounts Dawn Hemingway, Professor Emerita, UNBC Social Work. “And, you know, since that time, women’s organizations and people in general have been marking this day as one both of remembrance, but also of action against violence, against women in all its forms.”
That was the nature of a gathering at the College of New Caledonia, hosted jointly with the University of Northern B.C. at the tail end of the Inspiring Women Among US event after eight days. But largely, it’s remembering the Montreal massacre.
“It’s an anti-feminist attack and it kind of spoke to me as a woman and kind of gave me an inside dark page,” says Tanvi Guhagarkar with the Northern BC Women’s Centre at UNBC. “Gender-based violence is a global issue and that needs to be tackled on a global level. And here I am a few years later actually speaking on the day of, you know, like one of the commemorative ceremonies of the event.”