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Femmes Fortes and the Montreal Poor

In W. Mitchinson et al, Canadian Women: A Reader (Harcourt Brace, 1996), 68-85. BOOK DESCRIPTION: Encompassing a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, Canadian History: A Reader, a companion to Canadian Women: A History, brings to life current and historical issues that have shaped the lives of Canadian women. Full Text  

Women and Social Welfare in Montreal and Environs 1800-1832

In M. Whetely and L. Muir, Changing Roles of Women within the Christian Church in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995) 261-283. BOOK DESCRIPTION: Canadian religious history has been written with relatively little reference to the role of women. Throughout the years, the church itself has intensified this problem by restricting the options of women… Read More »

The Union Years

In Desmond Morton et al, Allegiance: The Ontario Story (Heirloom Press, 1992), 168-189. BOOK DESCRIPTION: The story of the province of Ontario by twenty historians. Third volume in the Canada Heirloom series. Full Text  

Women Without Walls

In William Dodge, ed., Boundaries of Identity: A Quebec Reader (Lester, 1992), 93-101. Full Text

Dry Patriotism: The Chiniquy Crusade

ABSTRACT: The temperance pledge and Charles Chiniquy are discussed. Thousands of French-speaking Catholics in the Province of Canada took the temperance pledge in their churches during the period of 1848 and 1851. Full Text The Canadian Historical Review, 1990, Vol.71(2), pp.189-207    

Canada West

In J. Warkentin et al, Loyal She Remains (United Empire Loyalist Association, 1984), 236-264. BOOK DESCRIPTION: A pictorial history of Ontario by United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada.