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  • PEI women attending university off and on the island to 1943 
    MacDonald, Heidi (University of New Brunswick, Dept. of HistoryArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005)
    Examines the assumptions and barriers that women from Prince Edward Island facing in pursuing higher education. Introduces two women-religious who were instrumental in breaking the barrier to coeducation at St. Dunstan's, ...
  • The social origins and congregational identity of the founding Sisters of St. Martha of Charlottetown, PEI, 1915-1925 
    MacDonald, Heidi (Canadian Catholic Historical AssociationArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)
    Abstract not available
  • To know ourselves - Not 
    MacDonald, Heidi; McDaniel, Susan A. (University of AlbertaArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2012)
    The quest for self-knowledge has been a guiding principle throughout history. Plato acknowledged the duality of self-knowledge as both individual (the Delphic maxim “Know thyself”) and societal. “[I]f a Canadian is to ...
  • Transforming Catholic women's education in the sixties: Sister Catherine Wallace's feminist leadership at Mount Saint Vincent University 
    MacDonald, Heidi (Queen's UniversityArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://dx.doi.org/10.24908/eoe-ese-rse.v18i0.6910, 2017)
    Sister Catherine Wallace (1917-91) was president of Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU), Canada’s only degree-granting women’s post-secondary institution, from 1965 to 1974. Wallace’s appointment coincided with a ...
  • Who counts? Nuns, work, and the Census of Canada 
    MacDonald, Heidi (University of Ottawa PressArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2010)
    Although women religious (commonly called nuns) have historically been a large group of mostly professional women, they were regularly excluded from what the Census of Canada defined as the work force. In the censuses ...
  • Women's suffrage and confederation 
    MacDonald, Heidi (Dept. of History, University of New BrunswickArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2017)
    Abstract not available