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    Ironic Interventions: CUSO Volunteers in India’s Family Planning Campaign, 1960s–1970s

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    Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), a non-governmental organization established in 1961, placed young volunteers in assignments in the developing world. Among the volunteers was a small and atypical group, mostly nurses, who served in family planning projects in India. Although CUSO was a secular NGO, the majority worked for an Indian Christian medical organization founded by missionaries in the late colonial era. While the nurses lacked professional training in birth control, which remained illegal in Canada until 1969, other aspects of their backgrounds equipped them to make contributions that were appreciated. Still, they recognized that they themselves were the greatest beneficiaries of their volunteer experience, which proved to be a launching pad for advanced education and rewarding careers both overseas and within Canada. Le Service universitaire canadien outre-mer (SUCO), un organisme non gouvernemental crĂ©eÂŽ en 1961, envoyait des jeunes bĂ©nĂ©voles en affectation dans les pays en dĂ©veloppement. Parmi eux se trouvait un groupe atypique de bĂ©nĂ©voles composĂ© principalement d’infirmiĂšres qui participaient Ă  des projets de planification familiale en Inde. Bien que SUCO fusse une ONG laĂŻque, la majoritĂ© de ses bĂ©nĂ©voles travaillaient en Inde pour un organisme mĂ©dical indien de foi chrĂ©tienne qui avait Ă©tĂ© fondĂ© par des missionnaires Ă  la fin de l’époque coloniale. MĂȘme si les infirmiĂšres n’avaient pas reçu de formation professionnelle en contrĂŽle des naissances, qui est demeurĂ©e illĂ©gale au Canada jusqu’en 1969, d’autres volets de leurs antĂ©cĂ©dents leur permettaient de faire des contributions apprĂ©ciĂ©es. Ce sont tout de mĂȘme elles qui, de leur propre aveu, ont bĂ©nĂ©ficiĂ© le plus de leur expĂ©rience bĂ©nĂ©vole, qui a servi de tremplin pour la rĂ©alisation d’études supĂ©rieures et de carriĂšres enrichissantes autant outre-mer qu’au Canada

    Home Lessons, Foreign Tests: The Background and First Missionary Term of Florence Murray, Maritime Doctor in Korea

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    Florence Murray (1894-1975) had a long and successful career as a medical missionary in Korea. Yet her first term in the Japanese colony (1921-1927) was a troubled one. Her difficulties arose in large part from her strong commitment to new western standards of medical professionalism in a setting where evangelization and, in the case of women doctors, a separate spheres approach, had previously been given priority in missionary medicine. This commitment is best understood as an outcome of the fusing of values derived from her stereotypically “Presbyterian” upbringing and her professional training rather than as a straightforward instance of secularization. It also provides the most useful context for understanding her changing orientalist discourse.Florence Murray (1894-1975) a Ă©tĂ© missionnaire mĂ©dicale en CorĂ©e. Paradoxalement, sa longue carriĂšre rĂ©ussie dans la colonie japonaise s'est amorcĂ©e par un sĂ©jour troublĂ©, entre 1921 et 1927. La fermetĂ© de son engagement envers les nouvelles normes occidentales de la profession mĂ©dicale lui a causĂ© des difficultĂ©s dans un contexte oĂč la mĂ©decine missionnaire dominante privilĂ©giait encore le travail d'evangelisation et rĂ©servait un rĂŽle distinct aux femmes du mĂ©tier. L'attitude de Florence Murray paraĂźt rĂ©sulter davantage d'un amalgame des valeurs typiquement presbytĂ©riennes de son Ă©ducation et des valeurs professionnelles de sa formation que d'un phĂ©nomĂšne direct de laĂŻcisation. Cette façon de voir aide aussi Ă  comprendre l'orientalisme de cette femme et les transformations de son propre discours sur ce propos

    “Prince Edward Island’s unique ‘brotherly love’ community”: Faith and Family, Communalism and Commerce in B. Compton Limited, 1909-1947

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    Imbued with the millenarian teachings of a maverick 19th-century Island clergyman and with a desire to provide communally for a close-knit kin group that had experienced economic hardship at the dawn of the 20th century, B. Compton Limited – a utopian community on Prince Edward Island – briefly became an object of widespread interest in the context of the Depression. A visiting rural sociologist noted, for instance, its members’ eccentricity while affirming their strong ties within the Island’s social fabric. This article explores the community’s background, the factors that held it together, and the wartime changes that culminated in its formal dissolution in 1947.ImprĂ©gnĂ©e des enseignements millĂ©naristes d’un pasteur insulaire non conformiste du 19e siĂšcle et animĂ©e par le dĂ©sir de subvenir collectivement aux besoins d’un groupe de parentĂ© tricotĂ© serrĂ© qui avait Ă©prouvĂ© des difficultĂ©s Ă©conomiques Ă  l’aube du 20e siĂšcle, la communautĂ© utopique B.  Compton Limited, de l’Île-du- Prince-Édouard, suscita briĂšvement l’intĂ©rĂȘt gĂ©nĂ©ral dans le contexte de la Grande Crise. Un sociologue rural de passage remarqua, par exemple, l’excentricitĂ© de ses membres tout en constatant leurs liens Ă©troits avec le tissu social insulaire. Cet article explore les origines de la communautĂ©, les facteurs qui la gardĂšrent unie et les changements apportĂ©s par la guerre, qui menĂšrent Ă  sa dissolution officielle en 1947
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