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On December 6th we gather to mourn and remember the senseless act of femicide that took the lives of 14 innocent women at L’ecole Poytechnique in Montreal in 1989. These women were massacred for no other reason than they were women. As we mourn these deaths, we also remember those whose lives are threatened by gender-based violence and honour the lives of those who have been killed.
Source: Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH) 2024
On December 6, 1989 Marc Lépine entered a mechanical engineering class at the École Polytechnique and ordered the women and men to opposite sides of the classroom. He separated nine women, instructing the men to leave. He stated that he was “fighting feminism” and opened fire. He shot at all nine women in the room, killing six. The shooter then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, targeting women for just under 20 minutes. He killed a further eight before turning the gun on himself. (Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre)
Since this horrendous massacre, each year Women’s Resources honours these women and others, including those identifying as women, murdered through gender violence.