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Keeping Men Out of ‘Public or Semi-Public’ Places: The Montreal Day Shelter for Unemployed Men, 1931-34
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Keeping Men Out of ‘Public or Semi-Public’ Places: The Montreal Day Shelter for Unemployed Men, 1931-34
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The Montreal Day Shelter for Unemployed Men opened in October 1931 as a social experiment in the early years of the Depression to serve the daytime recreation and education needs of "vagrant" men. The shelter closed in 1934. The liberal-minded Anglophone philanthropists behind the shelter understood that unemployment was a structural problem and not the fault of the patrons of the shelter. The shelter closed when federal financial assistance was withdrawn as a result of political squabbling between Ottawa and Quebec City.
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Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal
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Vancouver, BC
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UBC Press
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2005
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77-98
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en
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Shea, Anna, and Suzanne Morton. “Keeping Men Out of ‘Public or Semi-Public’ Places: The Montreal Day Shelter for Unemployed Men, 1931-34.” In Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal, edited by Bettina Bradbury and Tamara Myers, 77–98. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2005.
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