Emma Gaudreau Casgrain
Emma Gaudreau Casgrain was the first woman to be licensed as a dentist in Canada.Biography
Gaudreau, born in Montmagny, studied with the Ursulines.
In 1879, she married Henri-Edmond Casgrain, dental surgeon, inventor, alderman and first Quebec motorist.
She trained as a dentist under her husband, a dental surgeon who was 15 years her senior. In 1898, she became the first woman in Canada to be officially admitted to the profession of dentistry, when she graduated from the Ordre des dentistes du Québec and obtained her license. She practiced until 1920.
She and her husband had an office on Rue Saint-Jean from 1898.
She died in 1934. The city of Quebec placed an plaque on the house she lived at on 180 Aberdeen Street.
