MONTREAL - Polytechnique Montréal is expanding its scholarship program honouring the 14 women who were killed at the engineering school 36 years ago.

The Order of the White Rose scholarship was established in 2014 and had previously been awarded to one female engineering student in Canada per year. This year, new donors have stepped up to fund 14 scholarships valued at $50,000 each for female students to pursue an engineering master’s or doctoral degree in Canada or elsewhere.

The scholarships, set up to pay tribute not only to the victims but also to their families and the others injured on Dec. 6, 1989, were awarded during a ceremony at the school on Monday.

“We achieved it this year, and we’ll need more donors to join us because we’ve secured 14 grants, but four are only funded for t

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