Solange Chaput-Rolland’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Canadian politician
Was Radio personality 
Politician 
From Canada 
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Politics 
Gender female
Birth 14 May 1919, Montreal, Canada
Death 1 November 2001, Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, Canada
(aged 82 years)
Star sign Taurus
Politics Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Quebec Liberal Party
Education
University of Paris (1896-1968)
Institut Catholique de Paris
Awards
Officer of the Order of Canada  

Solange Chaput-Rolland, OC OQ (May 14, 1919 – November 1, 2001) was a Canadian journalist, author, lecturer, politician, and Senator.

Born in Montreal, the daughter of Émile Chaput and Rosalie Loranger, she received her education from the Couvent d’Outremont, the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique de Paris. Her brother, Yves Chaput was the husband of Françoise Poliquin, daughter of Jean Poliquin, grandfather of Jean-Nicolas De Surmont.

During the 1950s she worked as a journalist for the CBC with a young Jeanne Sauvé with whom she remained friends until Sauvé’s death.

In 1979, she was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election in the riding of Prevost. She was defeated in 1981.

She was appointed to the Senate in 1988 representing the senatorial division of Mille Isles, Quebec. She sat as a Progressive Conservative and retired in 1994.

In 1975, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1985, she was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.

In 1941, she married André Rolland.

Electoral record

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Quebec provincial by-election, November 14, 1979: Prévost

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Solange Chaput-Rolland 25,717 63.06
Parti Québécois Pierre Harvey 14,433 35.39
     Workers Richard Lépine 298 0.73
     Ind. (Crédit social uni) Jean-Paul Poulin 257 0.63
     Non-Affiliated Marc Blouin 78 0.19
Total valid votes 40,783 100.00
Rejected and declined votes 1,145
Turnout 41,928 77.98
Electors on the lists 53,771
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec

Selected works

  • Chers ennemis (1963)
  • Mon pays, Québec ou le Canada? (1966)
  • Regards 1967: Québec Année Zéro (1968)
  • Regards 1968: Une ou deux sociétés justes (1969)
  • Regards 1969: La seconde conquête (1970)
  • Regards 1970-1971: Les heures sauvages (1972)
  • De l’unité à la réalité (1981)
  • Le Mystère Québec (1984)
  • Et tournons la page… (1989)
  • Le Tourment et l’apaisement (1990)
  • Léon Dion, hier et demain (1991)
  • Chère sénateur (1992)
  • Les Élus et les Déçus (1996)
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