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Show Results (Full Entry) Page 1 of2 Anlerica.: History and [..ife Full Entry Display "'4IIIIIl Previous r Tagged " Next ... II •• • • •• •• 'CWrrt •• to • ••••• Sh~)ft • • ••• ••• , •••••• h knny LIst • • II /v 21 of 48 Type: Article Author: Cooke, Sharon Anne. Title: "A QUIET PLACE . . . TO DIE": OnAWA'S FIRST PROTESTANT OLD AGE HOMES FOR WOMEN AND MEN. Citation: Ontario History [Canad 19898 (1): 25-40. Abstract: Describes late-19th-cen orts to provide housing for the aged in Ottawa, Ontario. Although old-age residences had been established for wealthy persons earlier in the century, the first institution to care for the working-class and indigent elderly was the Ottawa Protestant Home for the Aged (Men), established in 1886, with the Refuge Branch for aged women opening in November 1888. The institutions were intended to ameliorate the worst effects of urban, industrial Ottawa by providing a "safety net" for the aged at a time when the elderly were no longer held in high regard, but they also served as agents of social control by insisting that only those workingclass elderly who had lived according to the middle-class precepts of Protestant morality were eligible for care in their last days. Documentation: Based on Globe Centre Protestant Home for the Aged minute books, records in the City of Ottawa Archives, and secondary sources; photo, 59 notes. Abstracter: S Language: English Period: 1880's-90's. Subject: Canada. Ontario (Ottawa). Housing. Aged. ISSN: 0030-2953 Entry: 28:4823 a http://sb2.abc-clio.com:81 Icgi-binlnph-appframeworklABC-Clio-Serials 5/9/2001 |
