Judith Fingard
- Affiliation: Dalhousie University
J. Fingard’s degrees are from Dalhousie University and the University of London where she completed doctoral studies in 1970. She spent her teaching career in the Department of History at Dalhousie, retiring in 1997 to pursue research full-time. Her research interests in Canadian social history have addressed issues of religion, class, gender, race, and disability. Since the late 1990s she has served terms as president of the Canadian Historical Association and the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Association. For her contributions to Canadian history she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991. Her books include: The Anglican Design in Loyalist Nova Scotia (1972), Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada (1982), The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax (1989), Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax (2005), with Janet Guildford.
Books by Judith Fingard
Protect, Befriend, Respect
Nova Scotia’s Mental Health Movement, 1908–2008
Judith Fingard, John Rutherford
For one hundred years, the Canadian Mental Health Association and its antecedent organizations have constituted a major force in the campaign to improve the prospects of people living with mental illness. This book traces the evolution of the movement in Nova Scotia in three stages, from one that sought to protect mentally compromised people, to one that befriended those struggling with mental disabilities and spoke out against discrimination, and finally, to one that advocates for the rights of… (more information)