{"id":1661,"date":"2017-09-25T23:09:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T23:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2017-09-28T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:06:56","slug":"visite-musee-hospitalieres-de-lhotel-dieu-de-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/2017\/09\/25\/visite-musee-hospitalieres-de-lhotel-dieu-de-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Visite au Mus\u00e9e des hospitali\u00e8res \u00a0de l’H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Montr\u00e9al."},"content":{"rendered":"

201, avenue des Pins Ouest, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec. 514-849-2919<\/span><\/p>\n

Nicole Garneau notre guide et membre de l’association hispanophone de Laval, a comment\u00e9 la visite d’une heure enti\u00e8rement en espagnol. Elle a fait un travail formidable et ce la journ\u00e9e avant de partir pour la Tanzanie. <\/span><\/p>\n

Incroyable travail!<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve Edwards<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/museedeshospitalieres.qc.ca\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.rhsj.org\/es<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Montr\u00e9al, le 9 septembre 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Nous profitons d\u2019un bel apr\u00e8s-midi de septembre pour marcher vers le Mont-Royal sur l\u2019avenue des Pins. Arriv\u00e9s \u00e0 destination, Jean-Pierre et moi ouvrons la lourde porte d\u2019un b\u00e2timent contemporain \u00e0 l\u2019ombre du vaste complexe hospitalier qui l\u2019entoure. Nous somme au Mus\u00e9e des hospitali\u00e8res de l\u2019H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Montr\u00e9al.<\/span><\/p>\n

Je n\u2019avais aucune id\u00e9e de ce que je trouverais \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur, mais j\u2019y ai d\u00e9couvert une collection d\u2019artefacts datant du d\u00e9but du XVIIe si\u00e8cle soigneusement s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9e.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cette collection raconte l\u2019histoire de Montr\u00e9al \u00e0 travers le prisme religieux colorait tous les aspects de la vie quotidienne \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque. De la vision mystique qui a motiv\u00e9 le fondateur qui n\u2019a jamais quitt\u00e9 la France, aux religieuses clo\u00eetr\u00e9es qui ont garanti son succ\u00e8s au cours des si\u00e8cles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ces artefacts, tels des pages provenant de journaux de bord, des menus et des affiches de l\u2019\u00e9poque, rendent cette histoire tangible et la transforment en r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Le clo\u00eetre est particuli\u00e8rement bien repr\u00e9sent\u00e9. Je d\u00e9couvre un monde cach\u00e9 derri\u00e8re le treillis \u00e0 travers duquel les s\u0153urs pouvaient avoir un occasionnel contact avec le monde ext\u00e9rieur.<\/span><\/p>\n

De l\u2019autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 du treillis, je suis transport\u00e9 dans le pass\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n

Je deviens une jeune fille infatu\u00e9e et mari\u00e9e \u00e0 J\u00e9sus qui d\u00e9couvre les rituels quotidiens de sa vie clo\u00eetr\u00e9e \u00e0 venir. Une jeune s\u0153ur me pr\u00e9sente un uniforme, une bible, un livre de r\u00e8glements et me conduit \u00e0 une petite chambre. Les repas silencieux, la pri\u00e8re constante et l\u2019omnipr\u00e9sence d\u2019ic\u00f4nes religieux contribuent \u00e0 renforcer la vision que je suis mari\u00e9e \u00e0 J\u00e9sus et je dois ex\u00e9cuter ces ordres.<\/span><\/p>\n

Je me dirige vers la pharmacie o\u00f9 je pr\u00e9parerai les ordonnances avec le contenu de dizaines de bocaux d\u2019apothicaires derri\u00e8re un \u00e9l\u00e9gant comptoir courb\u00e9. Devant toutes ces \u00e9tiquettes et ces recettes, le sortil\u00e8ge est rompu. Il s\u2019agit l\u00e0 d\u2019une m\u00e9decine vieille de 100 ans qui utilisait les onguents, les herbes et la th\u00e9rapie par ventouses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cet endroit t\u00e9moigne de la capacit\u00e9 persistante et \u00e9tonnante du corps humain \u00e0 se soigner par lui-m\u00eame. Puis, je me souviens qu\u2019il s\u2019agissait \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque d\u2019un hospice pour personnes d\u00e9munies et non d\u2019un h\u00f4pital dot\u00e9 d\u2019une m\u00e9decine de pointe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Je traverse le temps en suivant notre guide dans les salles de cet incroyable mus\u00e9e et me retrouve dans une pi\u00e8ce quelque part au 20<\/span>e<\/span> si\u00e8cle, au temps de ma jeunesse. Les noms et les lieux deviennent plus familiers, comme le centre hospitalier de l\u2019universit\u00e9 McGill ainsi que de belles photos des \u00e9coles de soins infirmiers en noir et blanc sur papier glac\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c0 mon avis, cet endroit devrait \u00eatre visit\u00e9 par tous les \u00e9tudiants en soins infirmiers de la r\u00e9gion puisqu\u2019il d\u00e9montre la pers\u00e9v\u00e9rance des fondateurs qui durant des d\u00e9cennies ont travaill\u00e9 sans rel\u00e2che \u00e0 s\u2019occuper des plus d\u00e9munis de la r\u00e9gion montr\u00e9alaise et ce avec des effectifs insuffisants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Je suis captiv\u00e9 par une murale d\u00e9peignant le canal Lachine et sa d\u00e9pendance sur le charbon au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 1900. Il y r\u00e9gnait un taux \u00e9lev\u00e9 sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent de maladies et de pauvret\u00e9. La congr\u00e9gation a soign\u00e9 des milliers de personnes chaque ann\u00e9e. C\u2019est un rappel impitoyable que peu de gens riches et puissants venaient en aide aux pauvres, autant \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque qu\u2019aujourd\u2019hui.<\/span><\/p>\n

De retour au 21<\/span>e<\/span> si\u00e8cle, je peu encore sentir la poussi\u00e8re de charbon sur ma peau et dans me poumons. Une parfaite raison pour r\u00e9duire la d\u00e9pendance mondiale \u00e0 cette technologie du 19<\/span>e<\/span> si\u00e8cle qui a affect\u00e9 la sant\u00e9 de tant de gens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Merci pour des si\u00e8cles de services.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Visit to the Mus\u00e9e des hospitali\u00e8res de l’H\u00f4tel Dieu de Montr\u00e9al. <\/span>
\n<\/span>201, avenue des Pins Ouest, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec. 514-849-2919<\/span><\/p>\n

Our tour guide was Nicole Garneau a member of l\u2019association hispanophone de Laval. She commented the one hour visit entirely in spanish. She did a tremendous job and all this the day before leaving for Tanzania. <\/span><\/p>\n

Great work!<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve Edwards<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/museedeshospitalieres.qc.ca\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.rhsj.org\/en\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Montreal, Sept 9, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Walking up towards Mount Royal on Pine avenue I\u2019m enjoying one of those beautiful September afternoons in Montreal. Jean-Pierre and I opened the heavy door to a \u00a0contemporary building dwarfed by the huge hospital complex surrounding it. We are in the Mus\u00e9e des hospitali\u00e8res de l’H\u00f4tel Dieu de Montr\u00e9al. <\/span><\/p>\n

I had no idea what lay inside but discovered a wonderfully curated collection of artifacts dating from the beginning of the 17th century in Montreal.<\/span><\/p>\n

It tells the story of Montreal through the religious prism that colored every aspect of daily life at the time. From the mystic lifelong vision that motivated the founder who never left France, to the cloistered nuns who guaranteed its success over the centuries. <\/span><\/p>\n

The story is made real in very tangible ways with artifacts such as pages from the logbooks, menus, and period signage. \u00a0The cloister is particularly well represented as I approach the inaccessible world behind the trellis through which the nuns were allowed only rare contact with the outside world. <\/span><\/p>\n

As I step through that trellis I’m carried back in time. <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m an infatuated young bride of Jesus discovering the daily rituals of my cloistered lifetime ahead. I’m greeted by a young nun, presented with a uniform, a Bible, a rule book, a tiny room. The silent dining, the constant prayer, the pervasive presence of religious icons will conspire to keep the vision alive: you’re married to Jesus and are doing his bidding. <\/span><\/p>\n

I walk up the pharmacy, behind a beautiful curved counter, where I’ll be working standing in front of dozens of apothecary jars preparing prescriptions.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m snapped out of my daydream by the recipes and labels in front of me. \u00a0This is medicine 100 years ago, these are some of the treatments: cupping therapy, ointments, herbs. This place is a testament to the human body’s persistent and astonishing ability to heal itself. But then I’m reminded that this is a hospice for the destitute not a hospital with state-of-the-art period medicine. <\/span><\/p>\n

I drift through time as we follow the guide through the halls of this amazing Museum and I wake up in a ward somewhere in the 20th century of my youth. Names and places take on a familiar ring now, such as McGill University Hospital Center, black and white glossy photos \u00a0from schools of nursing, and so forth.<\/span><\/p>\n

This place has to be on the curriculum for any student of Nursing in Montreal. It speaks of the perseverance of the founders who spent decades short staffed and underfunded, toiling to care for the destitute in Montreal.<\/span><\/p>\n

I stood transfixed before a wall to wall panorama of the Lachine canal from above \u00a0circa 1900. This place ran on coal and was a place of unprecedented ill-health and poverty. The congregation cared for thousands, on this very spot and throughout the city, every year. A stark reminder that few among the rich and powerful cared for the poor then or now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fully restored to the 21st century I could still feel the coal dust on my skin and in my lungs. A stark reminder that our use of 19th century technologies must end, if only for my personal health.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for \u00a0centuries of caring.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

201, avenue des Pins Ouest, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec. 514-849-2919 Nicole Garneau notre guide et membre de l’association hispanophone de Laval, a comment\u00e9 la visite d’une heure enti\u00e8rement en espagnol. Elle a fait un travail formidable et ce la journ\u00e9e avant de partir pour la Tanzanie. Incroyable travail! Steve Edwards http:\/\/museedeshospitalieres.qc.ca\/ http:\/\/www.rhsj.org\/es   Montr\u00e9al, le 9 septembre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanolaval.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}