Born in Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, she was the first aboriginal person in Canada to own and operate a private commercial radio station, Welland, Ontario's SPIRIT 91.7 (now CIXL-FM).
She became an ambassador for French music from Quebec and France when Chanson à la française was broadcast on 21 stations in Ontario in the late 1970s after years of experience in the media all over the world.
She was among the first to support Native artists in Ontario, including David General, Vince Bomberry, Shirley Cheechoo and Carl Beam.
She established a special policy at TVOntario for Aboriginal programming and set up a Native scholarship at Brock University in St. Catharines.
In 2006, she was inducted into the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business's Hall of Fame.