Hélène Brodeur (July 13, 1923[1] – August 15, 2010) was a Franco-Ontarian educator, journalist and writer.
[2] The daughter of Joseph Brodeur and Marie-Ange Turcotte,[2] she was born in Saint-Léon-de-Val-Racine in Quebec's Eastern Townships[1] and grew up in Val Gagné near Timmins, Ontario.
[4] Brodeur settled in Ottawa, where she taught high school, worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers and magazines and was an information officer for the federal Treasury Board.
[5] She was known for the trilogies Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario and The Saga of Northern Ontario, as well as a number of historical novels.
In 1984, she received the Prix du Nouvel-Ontario for Entre l'aube et le jour.