Mary Anne Poutanen

Biographic Data

ID1451388
NAMEMary Anne Poutanen
GIVEN NAMESMary Anne
FAMILY NAMEPoutanen
SIGNATUREPOUTANEN M A
AFFILIATIONSConcordia University Montreal, Quebec, Canada
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • From Conversation to Contract: The Notary’s Role in Nineteenth-Century Montreal

    Olson, Sherry Olson et al.ARTICLEUrban History Review2024

    Whether the subject embraces a family or an empire, the historian attempts to tap the information flow on which its life depended. The notaries of Montreal created and accumulated documents that now constitute a massive archive, accessible but underutilized because of the challenges of search and discovery. As a probe of the source for the 19th-century metropolitan habitat, the authors assembled notarized transactions among the one hundred member…

  • Recovering Identities from the Judicial Archives of Quebec

    Olson, Sherry Olson et al.ARTICLEHistoire sociale2024

    Under the rigorous marriage regime of Quebec, two patterns of evasion have left puzzles in the nineteenth-century archives: an annual cohort of newborns registered "of unknown parents" and a perennial population of women whose husbands are "absent from this province and in parts unknown." We explore the circumstances under which some of the "unknowns" made themselves known. By mobilizing a network of support for judicial recognition, they recover…

  • Serving Up Irish Hospitality on Credit: Business Practices of Women Publicans and Grocers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montréal

    Mary Anne Poutanen, Olson et al.ARTICLEHistoire sociale2024

    Irish women were not only wives and daughters of publicans and grocers; their labour was critical to public houses and grocery shops. Moreover, their involvement in hospitality, as publicans and grocers, provided them with the means to raise families and to realize economic independence, autonomy, and security, especially in the face of widowhood with children to support. Tavern- and innkeepers and grocers required a good head for business becaus…

  • Inventories, Interiors, and Women’s Ambitions: Strategies of Property Ownership in Three Mid-19th Century Montreal Public Houses

    Open AccessMary Anne PoutanenARTICLEUrban History Review2023

    Notarized inventories provide an important window onto the interiors of public houses, the image that keepers sought to project of their businesses and of themselves, and the type of guests they wanted to attract. In this micro history, I examine the degree of differentiation amongst three widows operating modest businesses located in highly trafficked Montreal neighbourhoods, in particular, the composition of their domestic capital, the business…

  • Due Attention Has Been Paid to All Rules: Women, Tavern Licences, and Social Regulation in Montreal, 1840–1860

    Mary Anne PoutanenARTICLEHistoire sociale2017Cited by: 1References: 4

    Taverns and inns were centres of neighbourhood life, places for travellers seeking meals, drink, and accommodation and commercial and domestic spaces where keepers and their families earned a living and that they called home. Women figured largely in public houses as patrons, servants, family members, and publicans in their own right. The article focuses on a sample of 90 female publicans who held tavern licences from 1840 to 1860, arguing that k…

  • Beyond Brutal Passions: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal

    Mary Anne PoutanenBOOKBeyond Brutal Passions2015

  • Architecture, Religion, and Tuberculosis in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec1

    Open AccessAnnmarie Adams, Mary Anne PoutanenARTICLEScientia Canadensis Canadian…2009

    This paper explores the architecture of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (Qc) to disentangle the role of religion in the treatment of tuberculosis. In particular, we analyze the design of Mount Sinai, the jewel in the crown of Jewish philanthropy in Montreal, in relation to that of the nearby Laurentian Sanatorium. While Mount Sinai offered free treatment to the poor in a stunning, Art Deco building of 1930, the Protestant ho…

  • Tuberculosis in Town: Mobility of Patients in Montreal, 1925–1950

    Mary Anne Poutanen, Olson et al.ARTICLEHistoire sociale2009Cited by: 3References: 9

    Durant le deuxième quart du XX e siècle, la gestion idéale de la tuberculose exigeait l'immobilisation du malade pendant un an ou plus. En même temps, les villes nordaméricaines vivaient des changements majeurs axés sur une augmentation importante de la mobilité personnelle. Dans un ensemble de 300 cas d'étude montréalais, les auteurs observent les pressions contradictoires exercées sur les tuberculeux, ainsi que la résistance qu'ils pouvaient le…

  • Images du danger dans les archives judiciaires: Comprendre la violence et le vagabondage dans un centre urbain du début du XIXe siècle, Montréal (1810-1842)

    Open AccessMary Anne PoutanenARTICLERevue d histoire de l Amérique…2008Cited by: 1

    La violence perpétrée contre les femmes vagabondes comprennent aussi bien des gestes commis par des hommes sur des prostituées que des agressions entre femmes. Les archives des tribunaux et de la police à Montréal donnent des aperçus des espaces publics où ces femmes travaillaient, échangeaient et vivaient. Il s'agissait d'endroits dangereux. Les vagabondes évoluaient dans un environnement hostile au sein duquel elles étaient exposées, quand elle…

  • Power, Place and Identity: Historical Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec

    Constance Backhouse, Tamara Myers et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1999Cited by: 3