MacDonald, Heidi(University of New Brunswick, Dept. of HistoryArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2003)
Examines the Sisters of St. Martha, a congregation of women religious, and their contributions to health and social services during the Great Depression in Prince Edward Island. The Sisters had advantages that allowed ...
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, ...
MacDonald, Heidi(Mount Saint Vincent University. Institute for the Study of WomenArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2007)
Between 1965 and 1985, the Sisters of Saint Martha of Prince Edward Island used the expanding social welfare state to their advantage, successfully negotiating space within new secular social services structures and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mullally, Sasha; MacDonald, Heidi(Ediciones Universidad de SalamancaArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of New BrunswickUniversity of Lethbridge, 2016)
Responding to rural poverty associated with the declining fishery, the rise of industrial capitalism, and the impact of the Great Depression, the Sisters of Charity, Halifax, implemented a vocational training program in ...
MacDonald, Heidi(Queen's UniversityArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 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 ...