Former journalist and researcher Virginie Boulanger died at the age of 89 following health problems on November 10, in Longueuil, learned The duty sunday.
Originally from Sainte-Marie, Ms. Boulanger enjoyed a career spanning forty years in several Quebec media, first in Newspaper The Awakening from Jonquière, then to Small Diaryat The homeland – for whom she covered the visit of General de Gaulle — and to Quebec-Presse, among others. She was also at the To have to early in his career in the late 1950s.
In the 1970s, she was notably assigned to cover the “Trial of the Five” and the “Dossier Z” of the Professional Federation of Journalists of Quebec (FPJQ), which focused on police and judicial interventions in the work of journalists. during and after the October Crisis.
A founding member of the FPJQ, she was also a close collaborator of journalists and hosts such as Pierre Nadeau, Michel Pelland, Keith Spicer and Gérald Godin.
After a few years working as a journalist, she became a radio researcher for public affairs programs at Radio-Québec (now Télé-Québec) and Radio-Canada.
“Woman of heart and spirit”, Virginie Boulanger was “a pioneer of Quebec women’s journalism”, believes her former husband, André Béliveau, also a retired journalist, now a journalism professor. They met at the beginning of his career when he was doing radio in Trois-Rivières, before coming to work in Montreal, New Diary.
Throughout her career, Virginie Boulanger has been particularly interested in literature, Quebec politics and the evolution of the sovereignty movement, he reports.
“He was a very generous person, who had a very developed social sense and who saw journalism as a way to serve society, recalls Mr. Béliveau, on the phone. I had great respect and admiration for her. »
André Béliveau has made it his “duty” to share the journey of the woman who was his wife and to inscribe it in the memory of those who want it, while he can do so.
Virginie Boulanger is survived by her son Yann Béliveau, her daughter Kim Béliveau, her grandsons, her brothers and sisters as well as her former husband and father of her children.