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Doing more with less: the Sisters of St. Martha (PEI) diminish the impact of the Great Depression

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 ...
Developing a strong Roman Catholic social order in late nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island

MacDonald, Heidi (Canadian Catholic Historical AssociationArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2003)

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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)

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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, ...
Maintaining an influence: the Sisters of Saint Martha, Charlottetown, respond to social and religous change, 1965-85

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Arts, crafts, and rural rehabilitation: the Sisters of Charity, Halifax, and vocational education in Terence Bay, Nova Scotia, 1938-1942

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 ...
Women's suffrage and confederation

MacDonald, Heidi (Dept. of History, University of New BrunswickArts and ScienceDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2017)

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