This is what I've been able to find in English so far:
The new Quebec Conseil du statut de la femme issued a comprehensive report on gender equality, titled "Egalite et independence"; as a result, Quebec changed several laws, including making a woman's birth name her legal name, all her life, regardless of marriage(s).
This is from:
http://herstory.womenspace.ca/timeline.html
This is what I've been able to find so far. The (English) website for the Government of Quebec is here:
http://www.gouv.qc.ca/Index_en.html
More to come...