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Claire Roy

Black and white photograph of two women standing behind a table. Claire Roy (left) is talking to the other woman. There are dishes on the table in front of them, and a lamp can be seen on the right.
Appartenance Mauricie Société d’histoire régionale, Le Nouvelliste Fonds (5039-001). Unknown photographer.
Claire Roy (left) was a pioneering woman journalist in the Mauricie. Born in 1904, she went on to write two women’s columns published in Le Nouvelliste: “La plume et le plumeau” (The Quill and the Feather Duster) and “Le courrier de Mamie” (Grandma’s Mailbag). From the start of her career in 1954 until her departure from Le Nouvelliste 25 years later, her reporting left its mark on the region. She was also one of the founders of the Cercle Lévesque, renamed the Cercle Marchildon de Trois-Rivières in 1943. This lecture society brought together women active in the local cultural scene to discuss and share information on new works from the Mauricie and elsewhere in Quebec. In 1967, Roy received the Ludger Duvernay Prize, a prestigious literary award, from the Mauricie branch of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Finally, she was known as an active member of another lecture society, the Société d’étude et de conférences de la Mauricie.

The photograph was taken on the occasion of a lecture she gave at the Business and Professional Women’s Club on February 9, 1961.