Madeleine Parent: Tireless Defender

Villa Maria High School Dept: But Madeleine Parent, who died Monday at the age of 93, also inspired a generation of women to become feminists and was a tireless defender of workers, especially immigrant women, according to Montreal Gazette. Born in 1918 in Montreal, Parent became a defender of social justice while boarding at the Villa-Maria convent now Villa Maria High School . She couldn't accept how she and her fellow classmates were treated, compared to the servants working there and she was one of those radical, uppity women that made people in power nervous. Former prime minister Jean Chr tien once said Parent was his hero. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.