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2019., John Aylen Books. Call No: FR 971.4 A311g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Peu d'établissements de Montréal peuvent se vanter d’avoir une histoire et un « pedigree » aussi riches que ceux du Centre de soins prolongés Grace Dart. L'histoire remonte à la Protestant House of Industry and Refuge, que les Redpath, les Molson et autres familles philanthropiques bien établies de l’époque ont fondée en 1863 sur des terres agricoles éloignées du coeur de la ville afin d’y accueiller des démunis dans un environnement sain et où régnait une hospitalité bienveillante. La photographie de la couverture montre la « Old People's Home » originale. L'histoire remonte également à 1907 lorsque, en l'honneur de sa fille Grace décédée de la tuberculose, le chimiste Henry Dart a fondé l'hôpital pour les patients démunis souffrant de la tuberculose; la photo de l’établissement figure sur la page couverture arrière. Les deux institutions de l’ère victorienne se sont adaptées à l'évolution rapide des besoins du monde moderne à mesure que les sciences médicales réalisent des avancées. Au même moment, la Révolution tranquille transformait l’approche caritative aux soins de santé du Québéc en systèmes axés sur l'efficacité. Les deux institutions ont fini par unir leurs forces, formant un troisième chapitre de cette histoire remarquable. Tout au long de ce long parcours, il y a toujours eu deux constantes: l'amour et la bonté. .
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John Aylen Books Call No: 971.4 A311g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Few Montreal institutions can boast the history and pedigree of today's Grace Dart Extended Care Centre. The story goes back to the Protestant House of Industry and Refuge, which the Redpaths, Molsons, and other prominent philanthropic families founded in 1863 on distant farmland to house the poor in a clean and nurturing environment. The front cover shows the original "Old People's Home." The story also goes back to 1907 when, in honour of his deceased daughter Grace, chemist Henry Dart established the hospital depicted on the back cover for destitute tuberculosis patients. Both institutions adapted to rapidly changing needs as medical science advanced, as the Victorian world transitioned into a modern one, and as the Quiet Revolution transformed Quebec health care from private charity to coordinated efficiency. These two institutions eventually joined forces, forming a third chapter in this extraordinary story, Throughout history, however, there has been one constant: love and care.
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c1986., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 338.761 Y68i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2017., [s.n.] Call No: SC 971.428 B442m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: details a magical period in the history of Montreal, Quebec and Canada. From the 1860œs to the 1930œs Montrealœs Merchant Princes built their grand estates at the foot of Mount Royal overlooking the city. From this unique neighborhood these residents presided over a social, commercial and industrial renaissance that joined a nation from coast to coast. The collective contribution of these families to the establishment and development of Canada is nothing less than remarkable. MONTREALœS GOLDEN SQUARE MILE A NEIGHBORHOOD highlights Montrealœs social and corporate heritage as one of the most significant contributions in the history of Canadaœs development. A Literary and photographic retrospective elaborating on the individual and family contributions to the building of a nation this volume features more than 600 historical images including over 350 images by Canadian photographic pioneer William Notman, the largest print publication of his work to date.
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-- Variole2010., Adult, distributed exclusively in Canada by Mongrel Media and the National Film Board Call No: DVD 363.348 L674o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Pandemics have killed more people throughout history than all wars combined. They are unpredictable <U+2014> and inevitable. Are we ready for the next big one? Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague juxtaposes a 21st century scenario against the little-known story of the 1885 smallpox epidemic that devastated Montreal. Revisiting North America<U+2019>s last major encounter with the dreaded "Red Death," it vividly evokes a modern city under siege. By the late 19th century Montreal was Canada<U+2019>s leading metropolis, and smallpox was preventable. So when an inbound train conductor displayed symptoms of the disease, authorities should have been able to contain the infection. But a string of fatal errors and mishaps would muddy the waters -- and a tainted batch of vaccine would sow panic and mistrust in a city already divided by language, religion and class. Epidemics feed on chaos <U+2014> and by the time it had run its terrible course, the 1885 plague had claimed over 2500 lives, mostly children from the city<U+2019>s impoverished French-speaking slums. This cautionary history injects Outbreak with dramatic urgency, as Dr Teresa Tam <U+2014> who oversees Canada<U+2019>s Federal Emergency Response Team -- joins epidemiologist Michael Libman and other experts to speculate on the possible trajectory of a contemporary pandemic."--NFB.
![Outbreak [DVD] (2010) Directed by Jefferson Lewis : anatomy of a plague.](/Library/images/~imageCT75064.JPG "Outbreak [DVD] (2010) Directed by Jefferson Lewis : anatomy of a plague.")
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2011., McGuill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 307.76 O42p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Carleton library seriesSummary Note: Benefiting from Montreal's remarkable archival records, Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton use an ingenious sampling of twelve surnames to track the comings and goings, births, deaths, and marriages of the city's inhabitants. The book demonstrates the importance of individual decisions by outlining the circumstances in which people decided where to move, when to marry, and what work to do. Integrating social and spatial analysis, the authors provide insights into the relationships among the city's three cultural communities, show how inequalities of voice, purchasing power, and access to real property were maintained, and provide first-hand evidence of the impact of city living and poverty on families, health, and futures. The findings challenge presumptions about the cultural "assimilation" of migrants as well as our understanding of urban life in nineteenth-century North America. The culmination of twenty-five years of work, Peopling the North American City is an illuminating look at the humanity of cities and the elements that determine whether their citizens will thrive or merely survive.
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-- Victoria Bridge :c1992., Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne Call No: SC 971.428 P811p c.2 Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library
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c2009., Baraka Books Call No: QWF 971.428 J13r c.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As a by-election eventually won by Irish immigrant and newspaper editor Daniel Tracey drew to a close in May 1832, magistrates supporting his opponent, loyalist Stanley Bagg, called in the British troops from the local garrison. Ordered to open fire on a supposed mob, the troops killed three innocent bystanders following what has been qualified ever since as a riot. James Jackson establishes that the riot simply never happened and that there was no mob when soldiers opened fire. His proof is corroborated by affidavits presented to a packed grand jury that exonerated the soldiers and officers and the magistrates who called in the troops. The grand jury comprised a majority of recently arrived English-speaking Protestant farmers even though the three victims were French Canadian and Catholic. Most troubling is the fact that historians have not questioned the official story. In this historical “whodunit,” James Jackson is a one-man investigative commission, combining the moral indignation of an Émile Zola and the writing talent and historical perspective of a Pierre Berton. Although the names of François Languedoc, Pierre Billet and Casimir Chauvin have been forgotten, their story deserves to be known.
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2013., Éditions Sylvain Harvey Call No: 338.761 M537s Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: David Mendel returns with another handsome book dedicated to the Seminary of Quebec. Richly illustrated with superb photographs by Luc-Antoine Couturier and a wealth of historic photographs and documents, this Mendel guide is a special edition which is published to celebrate the 350th anniversary of this historic institution. Discover the exceptional heritage preserved by the priests over the centuries, in Old Quebec, but also in the countryside, as we take you to locations and interiors that are rarely accessible to the general public. The legacy of the Seminary of Quebec - its role in the establishment of the Catholic Church, in founding important educational institutions, and in the development of French culture in North America - is remarkable.
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1998., Harvard University Press Call No: BLK Bio M663c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a remarkable effort of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison has recovered the true story of Shadrach Minkins' life and times and perilous flight. His book restores an extraordinary chapter to our collective history and at the same time offers a rare and engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary black man in nineteenth-century North America. As Minkins' journey from slavery to freedom unfolds, we see what day-to-day life was like for a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, for a fugitive in Boston, and for a free black man in Montreal. Collison recreates the drama of Minkins' arrest and his subsequent rescue by a band of black Bostonians, who spirited the fugitive to freedom in Canada. He shows us Boston's black community, moved to panic and action by the Fugitive Slave Law, and the previously unknown community established in Montreal by Minkins and other refugee blacks from the United States. And behind the scenes, orchestrating events from the disastrous Compromise of 1850 through the arrest of Minkins and the trial of his rescuers, is Daniel Webster, who, through the exigencies of his dimming political career, took the role of villain.
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c1993., McClelland & Stewart Call No: QWF 305.562 B798w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Canadian social history series