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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jette, Jim and Mary McCartney, Anne Hutchinson, Agnes Gereb, Ina May Gaskin, T ng Tuy t Minh, Yvonne Cryns, Miyuki Ishikawa, Elizabeth Brownrigg, Jenny Gamble, Patty Bartlett Sessions, Justine Siegemund, Biddy Mason, Elizabeth Cellier, Jeannine Parvati Baker, Carmel Hanna, Agnes Sampson, Mamie Cadden, Ruth Lubic, Mary Breckinridge, Carolyn Leckie, Catharina Cramer, Zypora Spaisman, Zahra Abdulla, Walpurga Hausmannin, Maude Storey, Hulda Shipanga, James Douglas, Sally Tracy, Edith Urch, Lorna Muirhead, Matilde Montoya, Annie Altschul, Rosalind Paget, Angelique du Coudray, Djoueria Abdallah, Marie Boivin, Jane Denton, Phaenarete, Diana Anderson, Mary Cronk, Karlene Davis, May Hansen, Marion Anderson, Jane Sharp, Rhodanthe Lipsett, Nan Koehler, Marjory Cobbe. Excerpt: Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jette (nee Cadron, January 27, 1794 - April 5, 1864), more commonly known as Rosalie Cadron-Jette (the Marie being a Quebecois Catholic tradition indicating gender), was a Canadian midwife who undertook the charitable care of unwed and struggling Canadian mothers between 1840 and 1864. She is best known as the founder of the Institute of Misericordia Sisters. Cadron-Jette was born and raised in Lavaltrie, Quebec, and in 1811 married Jean-Marie Jette. They had 11 children, several of whom died young. In 1827 she moved to Montreal and in 1832 her husband died of cholera. From 1840, in collaboration with Ignace Bourget (then Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montreal), she engaged in the charitable care of unwed mothers. At this time in Montreal, unwed mothers and those associating with them attracted a significant social stigma. Cadron-Jette operated initially out of her own home and the homes of her children, and later, with the aid of other women, worked from a series of buildings known as...
