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Capital Lives by Valerie Knowles
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Philanthropists
Throughout the world there are people who take seriously the obligation
to employ their spare time and funds to support causes that they
believe in. When their resources allow them to make substantial
contributions to these causes they are often called philanthropists.
In nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ottawa, when there was
no social security net or public welfare and hospitals were privately
endowed, philanthropists, such as John Rudolphus Booth (profiled
in the Entrepreneur section) and Alexander Smith Woodburn played
a vital role in advancing the interests of benevolent societies,
hospitals, orphans' homes and homes for the aged etc. Unlike these
male figures, however, the women profiled in this section were noted
not so much for helping to fund these organizations and similar
causes but for the time, energy and vision they contributed to them
and, in Trudi Le Caine's case, for the zeal they brought to promoting
the establishment of cultural organizations.
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