[1][2] Her father was a lawyer, and her mother was the daughter of Joseph Garon, a notary and political figure in Quebec.
[3] She then continued her journalistic career within the newspaper Le Monde illustré from May 1897, where she wrote under the pseudonym "Myrto".
[1] In 1901, Joseph-Israel Tarte offered Huguenin a position writing the women's section of La Patrie.
[1] This segment made it possible to reach a broader audience of women and introduced several types of content such as poetry, recipes, biographies, fashion, and more.
Aurélien Further, she suggested to women to educate themselves with different readings, to show temperance, to support charitable works, etc.
[1][2][5] When founding this new periodical, she aimed to give a platform to all intellectual tendencies, saying La Revue Moderne is not connected to any party, devoted to any policy, nor subsidized by anyone's money and therefore, can allow its writers to express their ideas sincerely, even if it means attracting replies that will put life and thought into our pages: 'From the discussion springs light', let us not forget it not.
[6] Addressing a predominantly female readership, La Revue moderne also aimed to educate women by developing their appreciation of the arts and literature.
[7] However, it also encouraged women to empower themselves by demonstrating their ability to make their own choices in order to improve their living conditions and their social relations, especially with men.
[2] As with La Patrie, Huguenin used her position as a journalist to encourage women to improve their daily lives.
She wrote two plays, the first was entitled L'Adieu du poète (The Poet's Farewell), which was first performed in 1902.
[1] Huguenin published Anne Mérival, her only full-length novel, as a serial work in La Revue moderne between October and December 1927.
[4] Throughout her career, from 1897 to 1943, Huguenin produced more than three thousand chronicles, notes, stories, letters and articles of various styles.
She spoke to defend the French language, notably at a conference entitled "Le Foyer guardian de la langue française".
In 1904, Huguenin was among 16 Canadian women journalists (including Kathleen "Kit" Coleman, Kate Simpson Hayes, Robertine Barry, and Léonise Valois) selected to report on the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.
[1] In 1913, Huguenin founded La Bonne Parole, a publication of the Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste,[1] an organization whose mission was to connect French Canadian Catholic women to strengthen them in the family and society through union.