- Performed as Polly Peachum in "Threepenny Opera" at Canada's Stratford Festival (1972)
- Performed the title role in "The Song of Bernadette" adaptation in French of the play by Jean Kerr and Walter Kerr Based on the novel by Franz Werfel for Lux Radio-Theatre on CKAC when she was just 15 years old.
- Friend from childhood with Denise Proulx, and lifetime friend with Pierre Roche, Charles Aznavour, Félix Leclerc, Fred Mella and Suzanne Avon.
- In the 90s, she slowly retired to her land in Estrie.
- In 2019 a biography of Leyrac's life, written by François Dompierre, was released.
- She received the 1979 Prix de musique Calixa-Lavallée.
- In 1998, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.
- In 2013 Leyrac was presented with the Prix Denise-Pelletier for her outstanding career in the performing arts.
- Leyrac had been married for twenty-five years to actor-director Jean Dalmain, from 1952 to 1977.
- Leyrac was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1967 and was the subject of an hour-long documentary on CBC television in 1972.
- In 1997, Leyrac received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
- In 1965 she won the grand prize at the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland for her rendition of Gilles Vigneault's "Mon Pays". That year she also won first prize at the Festival de la Chanson at Ostende, Belgium.
- She studied drama with Madame Maubourg.
- In 2007 a boxed set, Leyrac/La diva des années 60, was released, containing three albums of her performed songs, many by Quebec composers, as well as a DVD with a short documentary of her life and career.
- In 1967 she sang at Expo 67.
- She helped raise her siblings while her mother worked as a milliner, while educating herself by reading poetry and fiction.
- She recorded ten albums of music, and in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows in which she sang and acted.
- Leyrac began her acting career on the radio in 1943, using her knowledge of music and drama.
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