Quick Facts
Biography
Emma Gaudreau Casgrain (b. 2 June 1861, Montmagny, Quebec, d. 1934 ) was the first woman to be licensed as a dentist in Canada.
Personal life
Gaudreau, born in Montmagny, studied with the Ursulines.
In 1879, she married Henri-Edmond Casgrain (1846-1914), dental surgeon, inventor, alderman and first Quebec motorist.
Training
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 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 180 Aberdeen Street.