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From: "Dessaulles Beaudry" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Longue Point, Laval - hospital?
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:50:58 -0400
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Hi Kathleen,
in answer to your inquiry:
In 1901, to my knowledge, there existed not a single hospital on the
Laval island.
There is known place called Longue Pointe, on the northearstern part of
the island of Montreal and may have been at a certain time a separate
entity- read town within the island. A major army base was established in
that area and known as the Longue Pointe army base,(established by the
british army in the 1770 ies and again in 1812 to protect Montreal against
posibble US invasion of the province via the Hudson-Lake Champlain-Richelieu
water systems). The base was most active during the 1939-1945 war as
training center. The St-Jean-de-Dieu hospital was and is within the same
general area and the only hospital, at that time in the eastern part of the
island of Montreal. That hospital was dedicated for people with mental
disorders. It has a new vocation now of which I do not know, but the
buildings are still there close to highway 25 south leading to the
brigde-tunnel.I hope this will help you redirect your inquiry.
Des.


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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Longue Point, Laval - hospital?


>
> In a message dated 6/8/2005 7:10:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> I think I have located a family member who was listed as an interne in
> Longue
> Point, Laval, Quebec in the 1901 census. I could not locate the name of
> the
> institution. Other people were described in the census as pensionnaire,
> privee, hospitaliere and garde. Quite a few nuns were listed so it must
> have been
> a Catholic institution. Does anyone know what kind of institution it was
> and
> also what the French words mean. Thank you so much for any help you can
> give
> me.
>
> Kathleen
>
>
> =========================================
> The French words:
> hospitaliere = hospital attendant (female)
> pensionnaire = inmate
> garde = nurse
> interne = medical student
>
> I suspect the institution was a hospital, probably a residence for aged
> and
> infirm patients, some of them private patients, others on welfare
> assistance.
>
> Fr. Owen Taggart

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