A Nun from Québec, a Métisse from Good Hope, and a Gwich’in from Peels River: Three Women’s Stories of Sickness in the Mackenzie District

This article outlines the stories of three women religious who lived and worked in the McKenzie Delta, in the Arctic region of the far north of Canada, in the nineteenth century. Their service took place in the context of the spread of tuberculosis. Close archival work details their response to the...

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Main Author: Vanast, Walter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2018
In: Religious studies and theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 206-223
Further subjects:B Canada
B Health Care
B Tuberculosis
B Grey Nuns
B Nineteenth Century
B Mackenzie Delta
B Arctic
B Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
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