Prix Patriote de l'année

The Prix Patriote de l'année (English:Patriot of the Year prize) is an honorary title created in 1975. It is awarded by the patriotic Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society to people "having distinguished [themselves] in the defense of the interests of Quebec and the democracy of peoples, in memory of the Patriotes of the 1830s."

Laureates

 * 1975: Madeleine Chaput and Marcel Chaput
 * 1976: François-Albert Angers
 * 1977: Camille Laurin
 * 1978: Andrée Bertrand-Ferretti
 * 1979: Raymond Barbeau
 * 1980: Raymond Lévesque
 * 1981: Jean Duceppe
 * 1985: Jacques Parizeau
 * 1986: Gaston Cholette
 * 1987: Gilles Vigneault
 * 1987: Fernand Roberge
 * 1987: Jacques Henripin
 * 1987: Pierre Harvey
 * 1987: Rolland A. Pinsonneault
 * 1987: Gérald LeBlanc
 * 1987: Yvonne Hubert
 * 1987: André Brassard
 * 1987: Gérald Godin
 * 1987: Claude Gosselin
 * 1987: Gilles Proulx
 * 1987: Lorraine Pagé
 * 1988: Mia Riddez-Morisset
 * 1989: Louis Laberge
 * 1990: Serge Turgeon
 * 1991: Jacques Proulx
 * 1992: Carmen Sabag-Olmedo
 * 1993: Jean-Claude Germain
 * 1994: Paul Piché
 * 1995: Monique Vézina
 * 1996: Gérald Larose
 * 1997: Yves Michaud
 * 1998: Fernand Daoust and Jean-Marc Léger
 * 2000: Jean-Marie Cossette
 * 2001: Marcel Tessier
 * 2002: Pierre Falardeau
 * 2003: Georges Aubin and Renée Blanchet
 * 2004: Luck Mervil
 * 2005: Louise Laurin
 * 2006: Bernard Landry
 * 2007: Loco Locass (trio consisting of Sébastien Fréchette, Sébastien Ricard, Mathieu Farhoud-Dionne)
 * 2008: Robert Laplante
 * 2009: Hélène Pedneault
 * 2010: Gilles Laporte
 * 2011: Denis Trudel
 * 2012: Fred Pellerin, Claudette Carbonneau, Jasmin Roy, Maria Mourani, Julie Snyder, Louis-José Houde and Dominic Champagne
 * 2013: Frédéric Bastien
 * 2014: Pierre Curzi
 * 2015: Robin Philpot
 * 2016: Jean-Paul Perreault
 * 2017: Odette Sarrazin
 * 2018: François Côté, Éric Poirier and Guillaume Rousseau
 * 2019: Patrick R. Bourgeois
 * 2020: Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
 * 2021: Véronique Hivon