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Activities commemorating December 6, 1989
Thirty-four years have passed since the anti-women attack that took the lives of 14 young women and injured 13 other individuals on December 6, 1989, at Polytechnique Montréal. To honour the memory of the victims of this tragedy, several commemorative activities have been organized.
Week of the White Rose
By offering virtual white roses to a person of your choice, you’re helping to cultivate the next generation of women in engineering. From November 28 to December 6, Polytechnique Montréal is inviting its entire community, past and present, as well as the general public, to pose this symbolic and inclusive gesture through the transactional site roseblanche.org.
Thanks to Week of the White Rose, science outreach organization Folie Technique is able to host more young women from underserved backgrounds in its science and engineering outreach activities, to help develop their interest in these disciplines. Give white roses.
Those interested in contributing to the reach of the Week of the White Rose through their personal presences on social medias can download these cover images for Facebook and LinkedIn.
Order of the White Rose Scholarship ceremony
On Monday, December 4, 2023, Polytechnique will hold the nineth annual Order of the White Rose Scholarship ceremony. This scholarship recognizes an exceptional Canadian woman engineering student who chooses to pursue graduate studies.
To highlight the 150th anniversary of Polytechnique Montréal, the recipient student will now receive $50,000, which will be awarded for the 2023 edition and for future ones.
The event will be broadcast live on Polytechnique Montréal's institutional social media accounts, on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
To find out more, visit the Order of the White Rose website.
Polytechnique Montréal website
On December 6, the Polytechnique Montréal website will be put on standby to display a commemorative page for this painful event.
You can consult this page at www.polymtl.ca/december6.
White Ribbon distribution
From December 4 to December 6, 2023, white ribbons will be distributed at the main entrances of Polytechnique Montréal buildings.
Half-masting of flags
The flags in front of the main Polytechnique pavilion will be flown at half-mast on Wednesday, December 6, from dawn to dusk.
Laying of Rose Wreaths on Polytechnique’s Commemorative Plaque
On Wednesday, December 6, at 8:30 a.m., wreaths of white roses will be placed in front of the commemorative plaque located outside, on the South-West wall of Polytechnique's Main Building.
Members of the Polytechnique community and the general public are invited to be present at the memorial for a moment of contemplation, at any point during the day.
Photo exhibition
Association étudiante de Polytechnique and the PolyPhoto student committee, in collaboration with the Polytechnique Service de reprographie, are presenting a photo exhibit in the tunnel linking the main and Lassonde buildings, from December 4 to 8, 2023. Fourteen women members of the Polytechnique Montreal community pay tribute to the 14 women whose lives were taken that tragic day.
Commemoration at the Université de Montréal
On December 6,white ribbons will be distributed and the central tower of the Roger-Gaudry building will be illuminated in commemoration. To find out more, visit the Université de Montréal commemorative page.
Light beams on Mont Royal
To keep alive the memory of the young women who died on December 6, 1989, 14 light beams will illuminate the sky above Mount Royal on December 6, 2023 at 5:10 p.m., the time the first shots were fired. Beams will be lit one at a time, every few seconds, as the names of the 14 victims are called. Due to the pandemic, there will be no gathering on Mount Royal this year. The public is nevertheless invited to observe a minute of silence as the beams are lit.
There will be live streaming of the occasion on Polytechnique's social media: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.
