Visit at the Musee des Hospitalieres (Hotel-Dieu)
October 21, 2021Student’s taking part in the Outcasts and Minorities in Qu茅bec History course have the opportunity to visit 聽at the end of October.聽The focus in this course is on groups of women who renounced motherhood and decided take the veil. During this visit, the students will be introduced to the cloistered community of religious women who founded the Hotel-Dieu, Montreal’s very first hospital.This visit will foster a reflection on the Hospitallers as the “front line health workers” of major epidemics that struck Montreal in the past centuries (smallpox,cholera,typhus,Spanish flu to name only these.
