A Bourgeois Duty
The McCord Museum has some cool online tours of their Canadian history collection. “A Bourgeois Duty: Philanthropy, 1896-1919″ has some amazing photos documenting the role of philanthropists in the care of vulnerable populations and the development of cities (before government assumed the leadership role we see today).
This 1908 photo shows the kitchen and volunteer workers in the “Montreal Diet Dispensary” which “cooked and delivered nourishing food to the sick poor, the convalescent and the incurable.”
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