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Montreal Massacre victims

Fourteen women were murdered and 13 people were injured when a gunman stormed Montreal's cole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989.
Victims of the Montreal Massacre. (Canadian Press)

Fourteen women were murdered and 13 people were injured when a gunman stormed Montreal's cole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989.

Thevictimsincluded the following:

Genevive Bergeron wasa second-year scholarship student in mechanical engineering. She played the clarinet and sang in a professional choir. In her spare time she played basketball and swam.

Helene Colgan was in her final year of mechanical engineering and planned to do her master's degree. She had three job offers and was leaning toward accepting one from a company based near Toronto.

Nathalie Croteauwas another graduating mechanical engineer. She planned to take a two-week vacation in Cancun, Mexico, with Colgan at the end of the month.

Barbara Daigneault was expecting to graduate at the end of the year. She was a teaching assistant for her father Pierre Daigneault, a mechanical engineering professor with the city's other French-language engineering school at the Universit du Qubec Montral.

Anne-Marie Edward, a chemical engineering student, loved outdoor sports like skiing and diving, and was always surrounded by friends.

Maud Haviernickwas a second-year student in metallurgical engineering, and a graduate in environmental design from the Universit du Qubec Montral.

Barbara Klucznik-Widajewiczwas a first-year nursing student. She arrived in Montreal from Poland with her husband in 1987.

Maryse Laganirewas the only non-student killed.She worked in theengineering school's budget department. She had recently married.

Maryse Leclair was in fourth-year metallurgy, had a year to go before graduation and was one of the top students in the school. She acted in plays in junior college. She was the first victim whose name was known, and she was found by her father, Montreal police Lt. Pierre Leclair.

Anne-Marie Lemay was in fourth-year mechanical engineering.

Sonia Pelletier was the head of her class and the pride of St-Ulric, Que., her remote birthplace in the Gasp Peninsula. She had five sisters and two brothers. She was killed the day before she was to graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering. She had a job interview lined up for the following week.

Michle Richard was in second-year metallurgical engineering. She was presenting a paper with Haviernick when she was killed.

Annie St-Arneault was a mechanical engineering student from La Tuque, Que., a Laurentian pulp and paper town in the upper St-Maurice river valley. She lived in a small apartment in Montreal. She was killed as she sat listening to a presentation in her last class before graduation. She had a job interview with Alcan Aluminium scheduled for the following day. She had talked about eventually getting married to the man who had been her boyfriend since she was a teenager.

Annie Turcotte was in her first year and lived with her brother in a small apartment near the university. She was described as gentle and athletic, enjoyingdiving and swimming.She went into metallurgical engineering so she could one day help improve the environment.