L’ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE
A modern form of charity for the old and sick and for children was founded on October 30, 1903, by MM. L.H. Lesvesque, Joseph Hoostetter, A. Rivet, Ludger Gravel, G. L’Archevesque, Leo Fournier, Charlemagne Rodier, Dr. E. H. Desjardins, under the name of L’Assistance Publique, situated on 338-340 Lagauchetière Street. Its incorporation is dated January 28, 1907. Its object is the protection, housing, boarding and clothing, temporarily as long as the board shall see fit, of children, women, old people, the sick and other afflicted persons (with the exception of those suffering from incurable or contagious diseases). It aims at finding employment, or placing those in their charge into suitable charitable institutions. The work is restricted to citizens of Montreal, of all nationalities. The work has progressed so that it became necessary to build a large wing, which was inaugurated on February 5, 1911. It has four dormitories, an infirmary and three refectories. Over one hundred and five aged and poor persons dwell permanently in the hospital. The institution does not lodge casuals, this work being abandoned on the erection of the Meurling Institute in 1913, but it serves dinners to needy unemployed. The society is administrated by lay people, of whom the present officers are: MM. Joseph Lamoureux, president; A.A. Labresque, vice president; Trefflé Bastien, treasurer; and A. Godin, secretary. The internal management of the home for ten years has been in the hands of Mlle. Morache.
NOTE
The foregoing are types of the leading philanthropic institutions concerned in the movement for the care of the aged, orphans and children. There are others of great importance. The following list indicates most of the other activities under the above head:
Homes for the Aged:
- Hospice Auclair (Sisters of Providence), Rachel and Sanguinet streets.
- Hospice Bourget (Sisters of Providence), 2200 Ontario Street.
- Hospice Gamelin (Sisters of Providence), 1281 St. Catherine, East Street.
- Hospice du Sacré Cœur (Sisters of Providence), 401 Pie IX Avenue.
- Sisters of Providence, 109 St. Dominique Street.
- Hospice St. Antoine (Grey Nuns), 76 St. Paul Street.
- Little Sisters of the Poor, Seigneur Street.
- Providence Asylum, 369 St. Catherine Street.
- St. Anthony’s Villa (Lay), 865 Dorchester Street.
- St. Bridget’s Home (Grey Nuns), 297 Lagauchetière Street.
- St. Cunegonde Home (Grey Nuns), corner Atwater Avenue and Albert Street.
Orphanages:
- Bethlehem Asylum (Grey Nuns), St. Antoine Street.
- Orphélinat Catholique (Grey Nuns).
- Grey Nunnery, 25 St. Mathew Street.
- Huberdeau (In the Laurentians) (Filles de la Sagesse).
- Maison Ste. Genevieve (Sisters of Providence), Dorion and Gauthier streets.
- Montfort (For Boys) (Fathers and Brothers of the Company of Mary).
- Orphélinat St. Arsene (Brothers of St. Gabriel).
- St. Alexis Orphanage (Sisters of Providence), 247 St. Denis Street.
- St. Cunégonde Asylum (Grey Nuns), St. Cunégonde.
- St. Henri Asylum (Grey Nuns), St. Henri ward.
- Hospice Auclair (Sisters of Providence).
- Hospice Bourget (Sisters of Providence).
- Hospice du Sacré Cœur (Sisters of Providence).
- St. Patrick’s Asylum (Lay Trustees and Grey Nuns).
- St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage (Grey Nuns), 110 Visitation Street.
- Filles de la Sagesse, 620 Notre Dame Street.
Infants: