About
Born and raised in the Montréal QC area, Hamilton ON was my home for 25 years until my husband and I moved to Richmond BC. After obtaining my B.Comm. in marketing, I worked 10 years in sales & marketing, mostly for GE Appliances, then became a corporate drop-out in 2003 to pursue one of my passions: French language and culture. Hence that same year, I started my full-time French voice-over and translation career while pursuing full-time graduate studies in French, while personal training and group exercise coaching on the side (fitness/wellness is my other passion). In 2014, my French business was incorporated, and a few years afterwards, I transferred my PhD in French/Food Studies to McMaster University (expected completion date 2023).
I strongly believe in the importance of vibrant communities for better quality of living, especially for French-speaking people in minority situations. As such, I have volunteered countless hours for the Hamilton and Ontario French-speaking communities from 2003 until 2021, mostly as a Board member for not-for-profit Centre francophone de Hamilton inc. and as a host of my own radio show, French Toast, on CFMU 93.3FM. In 2020, I was one of six people throughout the province of Ontario who received the international medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Pléiade in recognition for my exceptional contributions to the vitality of the French-Ontarian community. I was tickled pink to receive official letters from Kelly Burke, Commissary to French Services, from the Honourable Caroline Mulroney, Minister of Francophone Affairs and from the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, lieutenant governor of Ontario.
A portion of the proceeds from Hélène Caron Consulting Services is donated to help kids go to French-speaking camps in the Hamilton ON area and to promote contributions of Graduate students in the French Department at McMaster University to Hamilton’s overall francophonie.
I acknowledge Indigenous Peoples throughout Canada, which include Inuit, Métis and more than 900,000 people living in more than 630 First Nations communities, and in cities across these lands. I am grateful to live, work, and be in relation with people from across many traditional and unceded territories, covering all regions of British Columbia and particularly the Lower Mainland where Richmond is situated: unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, QayQayt First Nation, q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen First Nations, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Stó:lō Nation
