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Many disparities between women in early Canada and in New England

[Jeanne Mance, founder of the first hospital in Montréal (the Hôtel-Dieu) and a key figure among the women in early Canada.] We want to believe that European settlement of North America was identical, but it wasn’t. The French and the English colonies established different patterns. The women in early Canada had a more public presence. In many ways, women in early Canada and those in New England did not have a similar status as I explain in Here to Stay / Lives in 17th Century Canada. A few peaks on the public role of women in early Canada as described

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