Today we visited McGill University to meet with a women working in the Center on Population Dynamics. She is a professor who has been studying how stereotypes and patient/provider relationships affect the care that indigenous women receive when pregnant. Something that I did not realize is that indigenous women have to travel from their villages to larger cities such as Montreal to receive medical care for pregnancies if there is no hospital in their village, which is very common, or if they have a high risk pregnancy. Since many indigenous people live in remote villages, they must fly to the larger cities which costs thousands of dollars and is thankfully covered by Canada’s health care. However, the women are usually alone in a new and different city because their families can not afford to pay for someone to accompany the woman. After our visit, we ate some famous Montreal bagels at the Montreal Central Station. The photograph above shows the stunning lobby of the station.

After eating lunch, we headed to the Montreal Archaeology and History Museum where we learned about the history of Montreal based on the remains of architecture and archaeological findings. The photograph above shows the remains of a bowl found underneath the city. The museum provided a good overview of the history of Montreal as well as of Canada and provided answers to many questions I had about Montreal and the Quebec province about things such as the language, the settler history, and the indigenous population.