predecessor appointed successor birth_place death_date party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
léon mercier gouin pierre trudeau jean-marie poitras st-eleuthère , quebec 17 march 1988 liberal senator for de salaberry , quebec 18 february 1917 march 27 , 1979 yvette boucher rousseau
 march 17 , 1988 yvette boucher rousseau
yvette boucher rousseau

yvette boucher rousseau -lrb- february 18 , 1917 -- march 17 , 1988 -rrb- was a quebec trade unionist , feminist and member of the canadian senate .
she was born in saint-Éleuthère , quebec and worked as a farmer and teacher .
rousseau interrupted her teaching career to raise her children .
she returned to the workforce in 1952 as a production supervisor in a textile factory and became active in her union becoming a director on the executive committee of sherbrooke , quebec 's labour council and then vice-president of the canadian federation of textile workers and vice-president of the confédération des syndicats nationaux -lrb- csn -rrb- , one of quebec 's principal trade union federations .
she served as a csn delegate on the economic council of canada , the royal commission on the status of women and the third world conference on work held in brussels .
from 1970 to 1973 she was president of the fédération des femmes du québec and from 1973 to 1976 was vice-president of the consultative council of the status of women and then served as president .
in 1979 , she was appointed to the canadian senate by pierre elliott trudeau and sat in the body until her death in 1988 .
