The Life and Origins of Micheline Gingras Born on December 16, 1947, in Québec City, Canada, Micheline Gingras carries the lineage of a tenth-generation Québécoise. She was the sixth of seven children born to Roméo Gingras and Rosée Dubois. Her family history is rooted in the movement from the rural periphery to the urban center; her parents both emerged from subsistence farming families located outside the city. They eventually reloc…