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Department Ofhistory Mcgill University Montreal a Thesis Submitted to The THE PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM AND THE MONTREAL LADIES' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: A CASE STUDY IN PROTESTANT CHILD CHARITY IN MONTREAL, 1822-1900 Janice Harvey Department ofHistory McGill University Montreal A thesis submitted to the Faculty ofGraduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment ofthe requirements for the degree of Doctor ofPhilosophy ©Janice Harvey August 2001 National Library Bibliothèque nationale 1+1 of Canada du Canada Acquisitions and Acquisitions et Bibliographie Services services bibliographiques 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Canada canada Our file Notre référenœ The author has granted a non­ L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive licence allowing the exclusive permettant à la National Library ofCanada to Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduce, 10an, distribute or sell reproduire, prêter, distribuer ou copies ofthis thesis in microform, vendre des copies de cette thèse sous paper or electronic formats. la forme de microfiche/film, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique. The author retains ownership ofthe L'auteur conselVe la propriété du copyright in this thesis. Neither the droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse. thesis nor substantial extracts froID it Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels may be printed or otherwise de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés reproduced without the author's ou autrement reproduits sans son pemnSSlOn. autorisation. 0-612-78698-6 Canada Abstract As Lower Canada/Quebec industrialized, the system ofpOOf reliefthat developed foIlowed a private, confessional model. While the Catholic Church controIled services for Catholics, the lay Protestant elite controIled the reliefnetwork for their community. Elite women played a major role in this network, managing most ofthe charities for women and children. This thesis uses the two most important female-directed Montreal charities-the Protestant Orphan Asylum and the Montreal Ladies' Benevolent Society-to study Protestant charity and particularly child charity from 1822 to 1900. It examines the organization and work offemale charity committees as weIl as the services offered, the relevance ofgender to charity management, and attitudes to childhood and family. Extensive source material, from the archives ofthe two societies, enables an analysis of the characteristics ofthe children admitted, as weIl as ofthe management committees, and their policies. In this period, serving on a charity board was an expected activity for elite women. As a result, committees had many members. However, this thesis reveals that only a smaIl number ofwomen actuaIly participated in the substantial administrative and organizational work that was involved in running a charity. This lack ofparticipation made it more difficult to supervise the institutions and to organize fund-raising events. Formed by the elite to regulate as weIl as to help the poor, these charities permit an examination ofworking-class agency. Organisers used their control ofadmissions and discharges as weIl as the institutional regime to impose their values ofparenting and work. Nonetheless, the study ofthese two charities shows that families managed to use charities to shelter their children temporarily, occasionaIly circumventing restrictive access rules or challenging a charity's refusaI to discharge children. As "ladies" acting in public, the women in control ofthese charities were influenced by restrictive gender ideologies, particularly that of"separate spheres." Gender conscious and conservative, they respected social conventions in their public appearances and deferred to men in critical areas such as investments. Yet, at the same time, they affrrmed their abilities and defended their authority and their autonomy in areas considered in the women's sphere, including child-care and charity management. Understanding charity from within a conservative culture that emphasized religion, tradition, and values like work, family, and social hierarchy, these benevolent women sought to relieve the poor but they also sought to train useful citizens. In their charity work, they faced many complex questions connected to child abuse, changes in apprenticeship systems, adequate training for children, and the rights ofparents. This study argues that both their conservative approach and their women's culture, centered on a personal approach, influenced the way they dealt with these issues. Ofequal importance, however, was the experience they had acquired over years ofchild-charity work. As a result ofthese factors, their emphasis on protecting the children under their care increased over time. Consequently, the policies they developed in favour ofhelping families with temporary care and in favour ofusing apprenticeship and fmally extended training in the institution itselfdiverged from those advocated by late-century reform groups, which opted for placing children in families instead of institutions and which advocated more restrictive, scientific charity methods. 11 Résumé Au Bas-Canada / Québec, pendant l'industrialisation, l'assistance aux pauvres s'est développée essentiellement à l'intérieur d'un modèle confessionnel relevant du secteur privé. Ainsi, alors que les services aux catholiques étaient contrôlés par l'Église catholique, le réseau d'assistance protestant relevait de l'élite protestante laïque. Les femmes de cette élite jouèrent un rôle primordial en administrant plusieurs œuvres caritatives qui s'adressaient aux femmes et aux enfants. En s'intéressant à deux œuvres de grande envergure dirigées par des femmes - le Protestant Orphan Asylum (POA) et la Montreal Ladies' Benevolent Society (LBS) ­ cette thèse étudie le régime de charité protestante, en particulier celui qui visait les enfants, de 1822 jusqu'en 1900. L'organisation et le travail des comités des œuvres y sont traités, tout comme les services offerts, l'impact du sexe sur la gestion de la charité et les perceptions de l'enfance et de la famille. La richesse des sources documentaires provenant de ces deux œuvres permet de dresser le portrait général des enfants admis et d'analyser les comités d'administration et leurs politiques. À l'époque, on s'attendait généralement à ce que les femmes de l'élite participent au conseil d'administration d'œuvres caritatives. À cause de cela, les comités étaient constitués de nombreuses femmes. Toutefois, cette thèse montre qu'une infIme partie de celles-ci participaient effectivement à l'énorme travail d'organisation et d'administration lié à ces oeuvres. Ce manque de participation rendait donc plus diffIcile la supervision des institutions et l'organisation des collectes de fonds. Fondées par l'élite à la fois de contrôler et d'aider des classes populaires, les œuvres constituent une source intéressante pour l'étude des interactions entre la classe ouvrière et les organismes caritatifs. Les comités usaient du contrôle des admissions et des départs ainsi que du régime institutionnel pour imposer leurs propres conceptions de la famille et du travail. Malgré cela, cette thèse indique que les familles réussissaient à utiliser les œuvres pour placer leurs enfants temporairement. Parfois, elles parvenaient à contourner certains règlements relatifs à l'accès à l'institution et même à refuser d'abandonner leurs droits concernant leurs enfants. En tant que dames oeuvrant dans le monde public, ces dirigeantes étaient marquées par l'influence de l'idéologie des genres, et particulièrement celle des sphères séparées. Elles respectaient les conventions lors de leurs activités publiques et s'en remettaient aux hommes dans certains domaines importants, comme la gestion des investissements. Parallèlement, elles affIrmaient leur compétences et défendaient leur autorité et leur autonomie au sein de la sphère féminine par exemple en ce qui concerne le soin des enfants et la gestion des œuvres. La conception de l'assistance aux pauvresqu'avaient les administratrices relevait d'une approche conservatrice accordant beaucoup d'importance à la religion, à la tradition et aux valeurs rattachées au travail, à la famille et au rang social. Ces dames cherchaient a répondre aux besoins des pauvres, mais aussi à former de bons citoyens. Dans le cadre de leurs œuvres, elles faisaient face à des questions complexes concernant les abus à l'égard des enfants, les changements dans les régimes d'apprentissage, la bonne éducation des enfants et les droits des parents. Cette thèse démontre que leur approche conservatrice et leur culture féminine centrée sur les personnes influencèrent leur façon de traiter ces questions. Toutefois, les connaissances qu'elles ont acquises dans le domaine de l'assistance aux pauvres s'avéraient tout autant essentiel. À cet effet, leur volonté de 11l protéger les enfants s'affirma davantage au fil des années. Conséquemment, leurs politiques basées sur une aide temporaire aux familles, sur un acheminement des enfants comme apprentis dans des familles et sur un entraînement dans l'institution divergèrent de celles des nouveaux groupes de réforme à la fm du siècle qui optaient plutôt pour le placement des enfants en famille d'accueil et pour des méthodes de charité "scientifique" plus restrictives. IV Acknowledgements Many people have helped and encouraged me in the long process ofcompleting this dissertation. I want to acknowledge the help and direction I received from the late Louise Dechêne when I first began the research and before my teaching career and work in the union and the woman's movement led me to suspend the project
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