Site map Home Introduction Working-class Families in Precarious Situations The Labour Movement and Charity Quebec’s Institutional Network: Housing the Needy Archives – Introduction Crime Law and Order Jails Women Behind Bars Archives – Crime Delinquency “Protective” Justice Reformatories Industrial schools The Juvenile Delinquents’ Court Archives – Delinquency Childhood Nurseries Maternity and Childhood Orphanages Criticism of Orphanages Archives – Childhood Illness Hospitals as Charitable Institutions Living with a Disability Public Health Public Subsidies for Hospital Care Archives – Illness Insanity A Network of Asylums Life and Death at the Asylum Archives – Insanity Old Age Moving to a Hospice, by Choice or Necessity Younger Hospice Residents Pensions for Destitute Seniors Archives – Old Age Unemployment Reaching Out to the Community Seeking Refuge The Great Depression of the 1930s Archives – Unemployment Conclusion A Troubled Legacy From Charity to Social Law Archives – Conclusion About Credits Bibliography Bibliography