Jocelyne Couture-Nowak
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Jocelyne Couture-Nowak
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| Born | Jocelyne M. Couture February 17, 1958 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | April 16, 2007 (aged 49) Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. |
| Residence | Virginia |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Fields | French language |
| Institutions | Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Virginia Tech |
| Alma mater | Nova Scotia Teachers College (Truro), Saint Mary's University (Halifax) |
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Jocelyne M. Couture-Nowak (February 17, 1958 – April 16, 2007) was an instructor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia and was the only Canadian victim of the Virginia Tech shootings. She was a native of Canada, and while residing in Truro, Nova Scotia, she co-founded the first Francophone school in the region.
Born in Montreal, she was raised in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the eldest of five children. She graduated from Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School in 1981.
Couture initially worked at a newly opened daycare operated by the Yarmouth Boys and Girls Club. She began to pursue her teaching career at the Nova Scotia Teachers College in Truro. She graduated in 1989 then obtained a degree from St. Mary's University in Halifax in the early 1990s. While living in Truro, Couture worked as a French instructor in the Humanities Department at Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC). She married Jerzy Nowak, an instructor in the Horticulture Department at NSAC. Couture-Nowak had two daughters, Sylvie and Francine.
With two other local Francophone parents, Couture-Nowak established the École acadienne de Truro, the first French language public school for central Nova Scotia in September, 1997. Operated by the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial, the École acadienne de Truro has grown from 36 students in 1997 to 118 students in grades Primary through 10. The school's first class of seniors graduated in 2006.
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