Doris Veillette

Doris Veillette (July 6, 1935 in Louiseville, Quebec, Canada – January 4, 2019, in Trois-Rivières) was a Quebec journalist, columnist and feminist. She was married on September 3, 1955 in Saint-Pierre Church of Shawinigan to Marc Hamel.

Biography

Doris Veillette practiced as a journalist from September 1968 to January 1995 in the daily newspaper Le Nouvelliste, published in Trois-Rivières.

From September 1939, Doris Veillette studied at the "École des religieuses Les Filles de Jésus", in Cap-de-la-Madeleine. In 1941, she became a boarder with the Dames Ursulines in Shawinigan, where she graduated in 1953 from a commercial course in English. She completed a bachelor's degree in philosophy and Canadian letters at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR). The historian Gaétan Veillette says about her: "Doris Veillette marked the collective thought of her time with her thousands of writings on various subjects such as the arts and family affairs, with a special touch on the typical subjects, in particular: work-family conciliation, the emancipation of women, their involvement in the public sphere, their affirmation in business, their career successes, their financial independence, their artistic works, the domestic arts, business affairs, cooking, parent-child relationships, clothes...

"As a free thinker, in a simple and direct style, she philosophically reflected the contemporary concerns and aspirations of women in the Mauricie region. It made women think about their reality, their savoir-être, their role as "domestic engineer" and their search for the ideal of the "modern woman".