Editing Louise Arbour (section)

==Early life and education==
Louise Arbour was born in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]] to Bernard and Rose (née Ravary) Arbour, the owners of a hotel chain. She attended convent school, during which time her parents divorced. As editor of the school magazine, she earned a reputation for irreverence.<ref name="CBC1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/arbour/|title=Indepth: Louise Arbour|last=CBC News Online|date=11 March 2008|website=CBC News|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630080252/https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/arbour/|archive-date=30 June 2020|access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>

In 1967, she graduated from [[Collège Regina Assumpta]], and proceeded to the [[Université de Montréal]] where she completed an [[LL.B.]] with distinction in 1970. She was a [[law clerk]] for Justice [[Louis-Philippe Pigeon]] of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] from 1971–1972 while completing graduate studies at the Faculty of Law (Civil Section) of the [[University of Ottawa]]. This is where she met her long time common-law partner Larry Taman, with whom she lived for 27 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louise-Arbour|title=Louise Arbour - Canadian attorney and judge|website=Britannica.com|access-date=19 November 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201050405/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louise-Arbour|url-status=live}}</ref> In a 2014 interview, Arbour named the move from Quebec to Ontario as the "biggest hurdle [she] had to overcome to succeed in [her] career," as her entire education had been in French.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/former-supreme-court-justice-embarks-on-the-next-phase-of-her-career-practising-law/article20487686/?page=all|title=Louise Arbour, noted legal mind, shares insights and advice as she joins her first law firm|website=Theglobeandmail.com|access-date=2016-08-03|archive-date=2016-08-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828220105/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/former-supreme-court-justice-embarks-on-the-next-phase-of-her-career-practising-law/article20487686/?page=all|url-status=live}}</ref>

She was called to the [[Barreau du Québec|Bar of Quebec]] in 1971 and the [[Law Society of Upper Canada]] in 1977.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/bio-eng.aspx?id=louise-arbour|title=Supreme Court of Canada - Biography - Louise Arbour|last=Supreme Court of Canada|date=2001-01-01|website=www.scc-csc.ca|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123143807/https://scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/bio-eng.aspx?id=louise-arbour|archive-date=2020-01-23|access-date=2020-01-22}}</ref>