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La mère des mères: Florence Louise Bradford
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La mère des mères: Florence Louise Bradford
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Florence Louise Bradford (1890-1977) was born in Glen Iver in Orford Township, today St-Élie d'Orford, part of the city of Sherbrooke. A nurse by training, from 1915 until 1949 Ms. Bradford ran a private maternity clinic for unwed mothers out of her home in Sherbrooke. These young women were often rejected, desperate, hungry, abused and exhausted. Ms. Bradford opened her home to these young women. She gave them board and lodging for a modest rent, for those who could afford to pay. She provided them with care and a safe, medically supervised birth. Most of her patients give their child up for adoption. Ms. Bradford found suitable parents and monitored the child's development in its new environment. She made these adoptions official, in complete confidentiality and with the utmost secrecy. These were the dictates of the time in Quebec, where society rejected these women for conceiving their supposedly illegitimate children.
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Québec, QC
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Les Éditions GID
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2024
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152p.
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fr
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978-2-89634-544-1
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| Citation |
Élie, Aline. La mère des mères: Florence Louise Bradford. Québec, QC: Les Éditions GID, 2024.
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