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Kettelie Jean-Charles

Kettelie Jean-Charles, born in Cayes, Haiti, is my mom. She’s a nurse at Centre Hospitalier Pierre-Le-Gardeur. I can tell that she is an hard working mom and spouse, but mostly a strong woman. Her father was “Tonton Makout”, which is like a cop for the dictator François “ Papa Doc ” Duvalier. The fact that her father was working for Duvalier gave her, her mom and her brothers and sisters, a protection from the violence that the dictatorship was causing. When the people had enough of “Papa Doc” they decided to create a revolution but it all went wrong and my mom found it best to leave the country and come to Montreal, Canada. She had no one except her big brother. She lived with him until she got married and she had me. She was working in a factory where she made boxers all day and decided to take courses so she could become a nurse. Not every mother can drop her kid off at the daycare early in the morning, make boxers all day, take her kid off the daycare and go to class at night every single day. She is more than my human for this project, she’s my hero, my inspiration and above all, Kettelie is my mom.

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Régent Samuel from Legardeur, QC. Régent is my grandfather and always had a good influence on myself. All my life, he taught me good values, like respect or sharing and he always have been an example to follow. He does volunteering at St. Vincent de Paul and he spends a lot of time there to help others. The main reason why he feels like he needs to help people in need is that he comes from a poor Jewish family who never had it easy. Plus, he thinks that it's the best way to spend his time because it's something he can really be proud of at the end of the day. " If you have time to invest, then why don't you invest it to help others in need "  Like he said, money doesn't make you proud, but good actions can never be overwhelming, not like money

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Jean Guy Dufour from Lac-au-saumon, Gaspésie. My gandfather was born in 1940 in the nearly begining of the « Grande Noirceur » and never had an easy life…He was one of the oldest of the family so he had to work sooner than the others. He stopped going to school at the age of 18. He was only in 5th grade in primary school because he couldn’t go to school in the winter. So you can understand that he can’t read and write well… At the age of 19, in 1959, when Maurice Duplessis past away, he was sent to a camp of woodcutters to help his family with the money issues. Life there wasn’t very easy. There was no electricity and no isolation like we have today. In winter, it was very cold, in summer really hot. When he finally got married, a few years after, with my grandmother, they decided to move to Montreal for a better life. They had two children together. My grandfather is so inspiring because of the fact that he didn’t want to give the same life that he had, to his kids. Today, he’s very generous and helpful. He wants to embrace life now beacause he didn’t like it before.

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Jude Lemieux from Saint Eustache, Québec. M.Lemieux is a man who is retired of the Canadian Armed Forces. My brother has the chance to see this man every week.

Although he's retired, he still gives his life to the army. This man has lived so much. with the wars he made, including that in Bosnia which will remain marked for him all his life. Bosnia war was big, A war between the Serbian, Croat and Bosnian people on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, involving mainly Yugoslavia. This war may have been disturbing for this man but despite these events he knows how to continue his life and live day by day. It was a Wednesday, October 4th, 2000, in April, that Jude Lemieux had just return from a second mission in Bosnia, but according to the words he told me, that October evening was as if the thunder of the day hit him. Marlene, the wife of Jude, announced to him that she was pregnant. it was destabilizing because this baby arrived 1 year too early because Jude had just given his name to his battalions to return to Bosnia. He had to meet his superior Gaston Morin to announce this news to him and it was at that moment that the man told him: "if your father asked you this question , would you be sitting besides me?" And it was at this moment that he understood things about his future. At the end of my meeting with this man he told me that raised his daughter for 16 years was his most beautiful mission of life.

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Sébastien Corbeil is from Anjou, Québec. Sébastien, my godfather, has three children. Technology is something that had interested him since his young age. He also likes to learn new things. His passion to the technology bring him to complete a master degree in chemical engineering from McGill University. He began his career as a searcher at the age of 25. After graduating in his job, because of it’s hard work he chose to go work in the United States. After spending many years in the U.S., in England and in France he decide to come back to Canada in 2013. His hard work rewarded him, beacause in 2015 in became CEO of Celluforce. This company is responsible of the commercialization of Cellulose NanoCrystals (CNC) who was discoverded by Robert Marchessault of McGill University in the 1950s. He also has the taste of risk, because he’s not sure if the commercialization of the CNC will work. I’m proud to have chose my godfather, because he has always work hard and he likes the taste of risk.

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Thomas Lebel from Repentigny. Thomas was born in 1996 in Montreal. I chose my brother as my human because he inspire me every day. He always create new challenges to overcome. For example, last year he went on a trip of three months in An Indian family even if he is not someone who gets used quickly to change. At first he found it difficult, but today he says that it is an experience that he will never forget. He also volunteers to take up personal challenges. The thing that inspired me the most is that his challenge for this year is to go in Europe with only his backpack. He wants to travel in many countries in Europe and he can do it because the treaty of the Functioning of the European Union allows him to travel in any country of the European Union without borders. That is why I chose my brother as my human. For the inspiration he gives me

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Thérèse Dupont from Coaticook, Québec. She is  96 years and she live by his own. She was born in 1921 at Coaticook. She have 12 brother and sister. She didn’t have a easy life. At 19 years old, his husband has the obligation to mary with thérèse for skip the war of 1939. It was the crisis of concription and they obligated the men to go in war but for skip that they have to married with women. The celebration was at Montreal at church Notre-Dame. After the married, they move in small house without electricity but they have a water. After the fisrt year, she got his first kid. Finaly she’s got 10 kids but the second died at 3 month. At this time in history, they don’t have a technologie for contraception so every women have a lot of kids. In start of 1945, the services came for every city and they got a electricity. They got a little farm for survive. His father give gift her for his married a cow and after this they grow up the farm. They finaly have 10 cow, 4 chickens, 4 sheep, 2 pig and many animals like that. Finaly at 55 years old they sell it and move in city of Coaticook to finish there life. His husband died in 2011 at 90 years old but thérèse was alive at this moment.

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Richard Paquin and Francine Paquin from Lavaltrie. Since the age of fourtheen, my grandparents are in love. They chose to raise their three children in Lavaltrie. Now, they have six grandchildren. Still today, they own a  fur shop in the basement of their home. Working at home together all years around since all those years isn't without challenges on the prefessional and the personnal aspect for each other. It is the reason why I admire them so much. They never gave up at each other and I think it is something that our generation should learn. They also needed to ajust their work because of the Chinese competition in this feild. They needed to pass of the manufacturing of fur coat to the manufacturing of accessory items all as original as each other. They have a big success now, because they are enable to keep their regulars customers and attract the younger generations with recycling the fur and the modern side they gave to their work. Bref, I am proud to say that thoses amazing people are my grandparents.

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Ivon Leduc from Repentigny, Quebec. Before is retirement ,Mr. Leduc was a borough mayor for  11 years. He is the grand father of one my friend and I have always been intrigued by him. I am amazed by the fact that he lives one day at a time. He do not worry about tomorrow. He always have something to say. One day, someone told me that he has plan to visit the 7 world wonder. When I asked him the reason why he wanted to do this with his wife, he said to me that it was all about the thirst of learning. He explain to me that he didn't visit all of them. The first wonder that he visit was the "Chichén Itzá" at Yucatán, Mexique. After he visited the Christ Rédempteur, the Machu Picchu, the colosseum of Rome and the Great wall of China. There is only left the Taj Mahal and the Petra. "Every wonder hide a lot of beautiful stories", he said.The passion that he have to discovered thinks and learned more about history fascinate me. This is why I choose him as my human.

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Clairette Comtois from Montreal, Quebec is a retired women. As her granddaughter, she used to  tell me all about her younger days. The wisdom she gained with the years often lead to beautiful bedtime stories. Through them, she shared her values with her offsprings. I have always admired her confidence and her strength. She felt the need to teach us about equality at a very young age. I didn't understood why at first but when I became older, I realized that men and women weren't treated equally. Through this project and my questions, I discover that the mother of my father is a feminist. When I ask her the reason why, she told me that when she was only nine years old, she heard on the radio that women in Quebec had now the right to vote. She found it really disturbing that men could do it way before the opposite sex. From that day, she refused to be consider as inferior because of her gender. At the time, growing up wanting to be something else than the perfect mother who stay home and cook was harder than she though, but the judgments of others never brought her down. I am proud of her being my HONY because she never stop believing in what she thought was right.

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For the Hony project I chose someone I admire a lot. With his passion, his work and his goodness, I chose my grandpa Jacques Gabriel. Why? It's because he was an engineer with an extraodinary intelligence. The Baie James LG4 damn project in 1970, wouldn't be there if my grandpa wasn't there. He brought the project to success. However, even if he loved his job, his family always came first no matter what. Something shaped his destiny : The Quiet Revolution. Affirming this, everything was for the best. The Québécois wanted a construction by themselves without the Americain people. The Manic 5 damn was the revolution for Quebec. My grandpa participated to it and he was proud and still is. The Quiet Revolution bring to Québcois the ability to take charge and have their own destiny without the english people or the Church or the priest. I am proud to present to you my grandpa because he is a great man

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My grandpa is from Montréal, Quebec. He is a brave man who loves is life and is not scared of death. I asked him why he was so courageous and seeing life positivly. He answered me that he was a marine when world war 2 happenned and he saw a lot of bad things in there. He knows that he was lucky that bad things doesn't happen to him and a lot of is friends died in this miserable war. For his friends that died for the right cause and the chance that he can continue life, he made a promise with himself that he was going to enjoy life and live day by day. Still today, my grandpa gives back to the society by voluntering for different activities like children who have cancer and other disease. He is involved in the association des Anciens Combattants du Canada and participate in a lot of fundraising campaign for people who are amputee.

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Rita Auger from Saint-Liguori. I had always been intrigued by the way she lives and the  reason behind it, so I decided to ask her. Rita was born in 1946. During her youngest days, Rita lived on a farm. She always helped her family with her 4 sisters and 3 brothers. It all started during her childhood, when she saw a pig being killed in front of her. After this moment, she decides she will no longer eat any type of meat.And this way of thinking happened from a very young age to 4 years.If anybody saw this, they will seriously question our food habits as a society. Rita was probably one of the first vegetarian in her time.This world day comes straight from the United States. It was originally decided in 1977 by the North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS) to develop joy, compassion and promote life (sic).This day is, of course, an opportunity to remind us of the obviousness of being killed too often: we eat too many meats, too many meats, too rich and too fat, and this is harmful to our health!

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Hony project

Christian, 47 years old, is my dad and he always got a dream. My dad was born in 1970 and in this time people got more babies and this time was called Baby Boom during 1945-1975. Since his birth, he knows what he wants to do in his life and was ready to do anything to go in police technique. When he goes to secondary and he wasn’t the type of student to give everything he has to accomplish his secondary, so he failed his secondary 4 and started to realize that he must gives more if he wants to accomplish his dreams. My dad immidiately started to work but due to the Baby Boom police technique was very contengent and my dad had to wait another year to finally made it to his technique. Today, he is the man who loves the most his job.

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Serge St-Amand from Repentigny, Québec. Serge as been retired for about 5 years now from the STM. He's my step-father for 14 years now. He is always there for me, to take me to hockey pratices when my parents are not able to take me, but that was often. He always do it with smile, happy to see me happy. I probably pass more time with him than my mother and father together and I will never thanks him enough for all what he do for me even when he was tired or he had a bad days. He studied in graphic art because he wanted to work at la presse newspaper like is father. Serge worked their about 6 years. He stop to work their because the economic crisis of the early 80. The Montréal matin was made their and it should close so they fired 1/3 of all their worker, serge was one of them.

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Gladys Paul from Newfoundland, Canada. Gladys also name Granny is today ninety four years old and she is my wonderful great grandmother. Since I was born, she has always been there for me. She doesn't worry about herself, because her family is more important that every thing else. I am amazed by the fact that she chose that the happiness of everyone else passes before her own happiness. What intrigues me about her is the fact that she has a huge bump in her back. When I asked Granny why she has this bump, she mentioned that when she was a young, she had to work very hard at last to help her family pay the rent. She had to bear heavy loads and with time, her back suffered. Gladys also worked in the manufacture of ammunition having served for the second war. Moreover, when I ask her why she is always in a good mood, she replied that it is because she has seen so much suffering in her life that today she is proud of what we are made. She is the greatest person I have ever know, I'm lucky to have her in my life and I am proud to say that I have chosen her as my HUMAN.

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Richard Ouellette is 72 years old and from Quebec. He is retired today and takes advantage. He is too my grandpa and I admire him for what he does in the past to help us to have a better life.

First of all, he had his first work at the age of 13. Richard had to make deliveries on a bicycle of prescription for a pharmacy near him. No to go to the cinema the weekend but  to be able to help his family to pay the command to be enough for the hunger of his 7 brothers and sisters. At the age of 15 he entered the quiet revolution.

In 1967, he worked in a company named General Spring. He made springs for the company Bombardier for their snowmobile, for the suspension of cars and for pens. Furthermore, springs created by the company where Richard worked were presented in the detached PAVILLON of Canada during Expo 67.

It is two years later that he beginning in the haulage. Richard transported of the rock for the manufacturing of the highway 13. When the highway was finished he continued this work for the company Francon until day or the company needed a man to go in underground tunnel to bring some cement. It is in 1970 that he began to make the transport of the cement to build the ways of the subway of Montreal in the station Honoré-Beaugrand. Indeed, he began after the inauguration of the subway. Ever if he didn't like his work and he did not work in the best condition. He say: "Avant on ne choisissait pas son travail, on allait où il y avait de la place."

After he was called to make the transport of the cement to build what we name even today Cast. He thus participated in the construction of the port of Montréal. He bring the cimen to build the quay which acueille boats.

Quiet Revolution :

The Révolution Tranquille is a period of fast changes lived by Quebec in the 1960s. In this year, Quebec is a highly industrialized urban society. Itis the elections of June 22nd, 1960 that the liberals end in the influence of the national Union. Supervised by Jean Lesage, the liberal Party of Quebec uses as slogan "C'est le temps que ça change". During the quiet revolution, an emergent middle class fights for having more power on the economic resources of Quebec.

Simard, Samuel. Entrevue avec M. Richard Ouellette, ancien retraité, 8 avril 2017, dans le cadre d'un travail anglais/monde au Collège de l'Assomption.