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Ladies Protestant Home

Coloured picture of a tombstone in the grass and surrounded by trees

Location: Mount Hermon Cemetery
Date: c. 2019
Source: Archives of Treggett Family
Photographed by Ariel Blouin

The Ladies Protestant Home was founded in 1859 as a temporary shelter for poor and destitute Protestant immigrant women. The shelter took care of many women over 100 years.  

In the 1950s, its mandate expanded to seniors, non-Protestants, Francophones, and men before closing down in 1990.