# \[Over\] 30 Years Ago Today, 14 Engineering Students Were Murdered in Montréal - Because They Were Women **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 7, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499 "2019-12-07T04:08:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499/41 "2024-12-07T04:09:56Z")
Thank you for this post, I see you keep it alive year after year. I’m a woman, and an engineer (one of _two_ in a company with ~35 engineers), and today felt heavy. 35 years and there’s still so much work to be done. I remembered these women, and cried for them. My larger company is American and there was no corporate recognition of today sent out. So I shared an image in Teams with my Canadian colleagues and just let that speak for me. I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499/42 "2024-12-07T19:21:20Z")
Interview with the police photographer who recorded the crime scene: > **[A police photographer recounts the harrowing day of the Polytechnique massacre](https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/a-police-photographer-recounts-the-harrowing-day-of-the-polytechnique-massacre-1.7136817)** > > Montreal crime scene photographer Harold Rosenberg witnessed a lot of horror over his 30 years on the job, though nothing of the magnitude of what he captured with his lens at the Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. He described the day of the Montreal... ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499/43 "2024-12-07T19:21:54Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Thank you for this post, I see you keep it alive year after year. You’re welcome. It’s important to remember. I’m sorry your US company didn’t find it significant. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499/44 "2025-12-07T04:20:45Z")
Another December 6. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/i-can-t-forget-the-montreal-massacre-and-the-women-who-were-murdered-none-of-us-should-9.6998883](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/i-can-t-forget-the-montreal-massacre-and-the-women-who-were-murdered-none-of-us-should-9.6998883) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499/45 "2025-12-07T04:41:47Z")
Thank you again for the post. Once again nothing from my company and it’s a Saturday…. The lights shone bright over Mont Royal tonight in tribute. There’s a new art piece at the Places des Montréalaises. The Polytechnique has expanded a scholarship in honor of the victims. They are not forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499/46 "2025-12-07T17:13:37Z")
Thanks for posting this annually. Sad to think how little has changed since. Progress, yes, but sooo slow, and so many backward steps. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499.md?page=2)