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A makeshift camp near Notre-Dame Street in Montreal.
The release of the special publication Soup to Self-Sufficiency illustrates different periods in Montreal’s history and plunges the reader 125 years back, when two Montreal women, Mina Douglas and Eva Findlay, began offering warm meals during a particularly harsh winter in a vacant building that once housed a brewery, which later became the Old Brewery Mission. Since then, the Mission has undergone several transformations, from soup kitchen to shelter to a diversified resource by the end of the 19th century.
All proceeds from the sale of the book will go towards the Old Brewery Mission.
Questions? Please call 514-788-1884 or email foundation@missionoldbrewery.ca.
A makeshift camp near Notre-Dame Street in Montreal.
Credit: Ville de Montréal - Sylvain Légaré
Résidence Bash Shetty
James Hughes, President and CEO, Nicole Beaulieu, Executive Director, Philanthropic Development, Dominique Lambert, President, Women's Services Committee, Solange Lavigne, Co-Director, Women's Services, Chantal Rollin, Co-Director, Women's Services, Robyn Cohen, Honorary Co-President and Director of Marketing at Modico Canada Ltd., and Lara Nourcy, Honorary Co-President and Executive Vice-President and Leader, Individual Insurance and Financial Services at Beneva, at the Old Brewery Mission Gala Mission pour Elles.
Voisines de Lartigue is a rehousing project for women.