Thérèse Dion

Who is Thérèse Dion?

Thérèse Tanguay Dion, popularly known as Maman Dion, is a Québécois television personality, and the mother of pop singer Céline Dion.

She was born on the Gaspé Peninsula, in Saint-Bernard-des-Lacs, Quebec, as was her late husband, Adhémar-Charles Dion. Her parents were Antoinette and Laureat Achille Tanguay.

Already well known in Quebec as a stage mother involved in her daughter's career, she later launched her own line of food products, Pâtés de Maman Dion, and became a host of cooking shows for TVA. She is also a sponsor of the Fondation maman Dion, an educational foundation which provides school supplies, clothing and eyewere to underprivileged children www.fondationmamandion.com She is the mother of 14 children.