Thelma Julia Chalifoux was born during a blizzard to a Métis couple, Paul and Helene Villeneuve, on Feb. 8, 1929, in Calgary. She grew up there during the Great Depression, setting the stage for ...

Thelma Chalifoux, former senator and Métis activist, dies at 88 ... She also enrolled in correspondence classes to finish school, her son said.

The option of sending junior high students from A. Blair McPherson, which opened in 2010 in Tamarack, to the new Thelma Chalifoux School slated to open in the Larkspur neighbourhood in fall 2020 ...

Thelma Chalifoux, the first Indigenous woman to serve as a Canadian senator, has died at age 88. Chalifoux’s eldest son, Bob Coulter, said his mother died Friday night at St. Albert’s Citadel ...

Metis activist and retired senator Thelma Chalifoux has died. Chalifoux’s daughter, Debbie Coulter, says her mother passed away Friday evening at a care home in St. Albert, near Edmonton, and had been ...

Thelma Chalifoux, a high-profile member of Alberta’s Metis and Indigenous community and once a Canadian senator, died in St. Albert, Alta. on Friday with friends and family at her bedside. She ...

New stamps will honour lives and legacies of Nellie Cournoyea, George Manuel and Thelma Chalifoux This news release is also available to read in Inuinnaqtun, Sallirmiutun, Secwepemc and Cree ...

Chalifoux dedicated her life to advocating for social justice and women's and Indigenous rights. This news release is also available to read in Cree. ST. ALBERT, AB, June 13, 2023 /CNW/ - At an event ...

For the second straight year, Canada Post will issue a new series of stamps to honour Indigenous leaders. Three different stamps, celebrating Nellie Cournoyea, George Manuel and Thelma Chalifoux ...

Before Thelma Chalifoux became the first Métis woman appointed to Canada's Senate, she was a mother of eight caught in an abusive marriage. "That's part of my early memories," her son Scott Coulter ...

Métis activist and retired senator Thelma Chalifoux has died. Chalifoux's daughter, Debbie Coulter, says her mother passed away Friday evening at a care home in St. Albert, near Edmonton, and had ...

Metis activist and retired senator Thelma Chalifoux has died. Chalifoux’s daughter, Debbie Coulter, says her mother passed away Friday evening at a care home in St. Albert, near Edmonton, and ...