Saint Jacqueline des bins

A clipping I took from the Gazette in 2004 and placed in my Duplessis Orphans file. An obituary on Jacqueline St.Urbain who was abandoned as a child,left on a doorstep on St.Urbain street down in the redlight district. She was given the name of the street by the nuns who used and abused her as a domestic in an orphanage under conditions of enforced servitude. Finally at the age of thirty seven in 1967 she made her break and became a street activist who participate in occupations and other media profiled protests organized by the Duplessis Orphans A newsprint photo of a tiny old lady with wizened face grasping one of her beloved stuffed animals as well as a picket sign at a demo in support of the homeless. 'Des Bins' thats what they used to call the orphanage where Jacqueline was placed because it always smelt of beans .

Saint Jacqueline des bins