Henriette, la capuche : The Portrait of a Frontier Midwife

Paradis, Roger

Article on Henriette Blier Pelletier and her lifelong commitment to midwifery. A Québec-born transplant to the Madawaska Territory and the St. Luce Parish - later to be called Frenchville, Maine. Pelletier helped to deliver the children of rural women in their homes, with methods and skills learned through apprenticeship, around the turn of the century. Explanations of medical procedures, folk medicines, and other folk practices used by Pelletier and others in the region, as gleaned from oral history interviews with women in the St. John Valley.

1983 Spring

en

Journal Article

19th century - 20th century

Frenchville, Maine

9739-3759

Québec Studies

1

130-150