Anne Petrie visits College to discuss
history of Canadian maternity homes

BC-TV host, Anne Petrie, will

speak as part of the Hon. Thomas
A. Dohm lecture series June | at
Capilano College, 10:30 a.m. in the
Cedar building, room 148. She will
talk on her new book, Gone to an
Aunts: Remembering Canada’s Homes
for Unwed Mothers.

Anne’s own stay at a Vancouver
maternity home in the late 1960s is the
publication’s powerful narrative
thread. “The book was published last
spring,” says Anne, “and was a
national best-seller. The
overwhelmingly positive response to it
has made me think that it might have a
place in women’s studies courses in
Canada.

“Through personal stories and
primary research,” she continues,
“Gone to an Aunt’s documents a time
in the lives of young girls and women
that most Canadians have forgotten or
never knew about. Students in British
Columbia might be particularly
interested in the story set in the

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Education (CASE) and the Canadian
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Maywood Home in Vancouver, one of
several homes for ‘fallen women’ in the
province.”

Anne was the coordinator of the first
women’s studies program in Canada; a
continuing education evening program
cosponsored by the University of British
Columbia Alma Mater Society and the
federal Opportunities for Youth program.
From that beginning, negotiations began
with the university on the development of
women’s studies. Since then, Anne’s
career in radio and television broadcasting
has taken her in many different directions.
“But it seems as if this particular book
project has brought me full circle,” she
says.

From an academic point of view, this
look at the way unmarried pregnant girls
and women were institutionalized in the
late 1950s and 1960s might apply to a
number of disciplines, such as history,
sociology, psychology and public policy.

Admission to the lecture is free. Call
Sandra Moe at 255-1640 for more
information.

(ex Capilano
@ex College

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