Rosemarie Landry

Location: New Brunswick| Profession: Arts

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Rosemarie Landry

Rosemarie Landry was born in 1946 and grew up in New Brunswick. The Acadian community of Caraquet was closely knit, everyone sharing a close connection through history and song, instilling in her a deep cultural identity. She studied at the University of Montreal and has since sung with all the major orchestras, choirs and opera companies of Canada, as well as others around the world. She has taught at Memorial University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Order of Canada.

Rosemarie Landry

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Coming of Age

“I remember my twentieth birthday clearly. It was during the summer following my third year of med school and I had accepted a placement on the Côte Nord in a little town near Labrador called Blanc Sablon. It was a strange place to be posted, but I had chosen it on a whim as part of my desire to get out into the world and try something new – even though that world only stretched to the provincial border. It was radically different than anything I had known. Unlike my classmates who had stayed in Montreal, worked in hospitals and sorted files, I was doing actual house calls, dealing with the First Nations populations and performing basic surgery – all at twenty years of age. The desire to do something different, to take the road less travelled paid off: I got the broadest, most well-rounded introduction to the medical profession.”