Widows

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …

female newborn, newly weaned toddler, accompanied by widows and married women. 37 Alongside every precious … weeping as secrets are put to the test. 10 Rise, widows who were left behind with orphans, Overwhelmed … and bereavement. 11 Mothers bereft and pregnant widows, a little girl holding an infant, a little boy …

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

had created for themselves. Both women became widows later in their lives and never dated or remar- …

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

bell should anything still be needed. Like most widows of her generation, the Baronne was generally dressed …

A Brief History Social Planning Council of Winnipeg 1919 to 2024 The origin of the Social Planning Council (SPCW) For example, a spirit of cooperation among reflects the diverse and …

undergone significant organizational and mandate widows and deserted women, a mother’s allowance changes …

Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …

religion, December 1847–June 1848 / 113 4.4 Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum, Toronto, 1847–48, child placement … Catholic clergy and lay leaders / 119 4.5 Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum, Toronto, 1847–48, child placement … placement locations by occupation / 119 4.6 Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum, Toronto, 1847–48, child placement … apprenticeship clearly spelled out by guardians of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum. In the so-called “Belfast … could not be found. In Toronto, the records of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum for 1847 were detailed in …

The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. Focusing on those living around Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi along the Ontario-Quebec border over a century, this …

petition- ers is said to have included a number of widows.57 caNaDa aND INDIgeNoUS PeoPLe IN the NINeteeNth …

Canada’s social safety net is fraying. Why does it feel like everything is collapsing?Canada is at a crossroad. Neoliberalism has hollowed out and sold off the social services Canadians rely …

to a serviceman: mothers, sisters, wives, and widows. At the same time, the government disenfranchised …

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

many cases are picked up by women. Whether as widows or caregivers (personal, private, or professional) …

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …

people who received parochial relief, especially widows, could be expected to look after other poor sick … Laws saw poor-if-enterprising women, particularly widows, looking after their poor sick neighbours as a … described care providers or care givers as women, widows or landladies. And usually, the officials were … the Admirals con- cerning the relief of sailors’ widows and disabled mariners “as a service to the public … impossible for them to manage the sick and wounded, widows of dead servicemen and disabled seamen, while …

The pursuit and advancement of the principle of intergenerational solidarity would ensure that the rights of people of all ages are protected and promoted at all times to secure a …

the few assets they have if they were to leave. Widows who have no legal documentation of birth or of … the financial, physical and mental abuse faced by widows, including accusations of being ‘witches’ is still … e0222_web.pdf 30 See’ Widows Speak Out’: dossier of evidence for CEDAW, Widows for Peace though Democracy …