Jeanine Beaubien

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Jeanine Beaubien
Born(1919-07-05)July 5, 1919
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
DiedMarch 3, 2016(2016-03-03) (aged 96)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupationtheatre woman

Jeanine Charbonneau Beaubien (July 5, 1919 – March 3, 2016)[1] was a Canadian theatre woman.[2]

Biography

Born on July 5, 1919, in

Napoléon Charbonneau (1853–1916), lawyer, federal deputy, then second judge of the Superior Court (1903–1916), and like his younger brother,[4] D J. Henri Charbonneau (1901–1975), m.d., pediatrician, infectiologist] (Jules-Henri, uncle de Jeanine), and their descendants:[5] Jeanine Charbonneau graduated in 1937, the year of her 18th birthday, at Villa Maria,[6] in the neighborhood Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, one of the most reputable bilingual Catholic private colleges, then reserved for young girls. She was very interested in the adventure of the theatrical troop Les Compagnons de Saint-Laurent
, founded that year.

She married Claude-Panet Beaubien (1908–1986), with whom she had 3 sons and a daughter, and known 8 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

Arvida, in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean,[8] where the head office of the Alcan. On leaving Arvida, the family lives in Quebec City
, then returns to Montreal.

She admits having had an interest in theatre since the age of four and plays sporadically (notably under the direction of Father Émile Legault) and is a member of the executive committee of the Dramatic Art Festival of Canada.[7] In 1957, on Saint Helen's Island, in Montreal, she founded the International Theatre "La Poudrière" (180 seats),[7] to Montreal. She directed it until its closure in 1982, then publishing a book on the 25th anniversary of this multicultural institution.

She was then co-founder and active member of the Alzheimer Society of Montreal,

20th Century Fox, and is a member of the board of directors of Telefilm Canada (1996–2003).[9][10]

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