(26 May 1891-14 Jan. 1973), teacher. Florence Quesnel became a historical figure as one of the teachers in the celebrated Green Valley School Case of 1914-1916. In this struggle between anglophone and francophone residents of one of the GC school sections, S.S. # 14 Lancaster (next to Green Valley), an anglophone group objected to the teachers (who were first Léontine Sénécal, from Buckingham, Que., and afterwards Florence Quesnel), on the grounds that they were insufficiently qualified and were using French as the language of instruction in the school. After the francophone ratepayers lost in the courts, they opened a private school at Green Valley in 1916 with Florence Quesnel as the teacher. She is said also to have taught at Sturgeon Falls, Ont. On 8 June 1947, at Green Valley, she was awarded a certificate and a medal to honour her long teaching career. Florence Quesnel never married. She is buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Marie-de-l’Assomption parish, Green Valley. As a figure in the Green Valley School case, Léontine Sénécal has for some reason been relatively overlooked.

Fraser, Gravestones, III, 14 * MacGillivray & Ross 253, 691 and sources stated there * Bibliography of Glengarry: index for Green Valley School Case * Ross, Lancaster, 281, 343 * Green Valley Album Souvenir 1956-2006: Sainte-Marie-de-l’Assomption (2007?), historical data, portrait of Florence Quesnel * for Green Valley School Case, see also Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XV, 557