Marker of Change

Yesterday I visited East Vancouver's Thornton Park to sit seat-by-seat around Beth Alber's monument to women. Entitled Marker of Change (1994), the work consists of 14 benches -- one for each woman executed by a gunman at the l'Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal on December 6, 1989.

• Geneviève Bergeron (1968–1989), civil engineering student
• Hélène Colgan (1966–1989), mechanical engineering student
• Nathalie Croteau (1966–1989), mechanical engineering student
• Barbara Daigneault (1967–1989), mechanical engineering student
• Anne-Marie Edward (1968–1989), chemical engineering student
• Maud Haviernick (1960–1989), materials engineering student
• Maryse Laganière (1964–1989), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department
• Maryse Leclair (1966–1989), materials engineering student
• Anne-Marie Lemay (1967–1989), mechanical engineering student
• Sonia Pelletier (1961–1989), mechanical engineering student
• Michèle Richard (1968–1989), materials engineering student
• Annie St-Arneault (1966–1989), mechanical engineering student
• Annie Turcotte (1969–1989), materials engineering student
• Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (1958–1989), nursing student