Madeleine Blair

[Bob Loblaw]

Was driving home last night and heard part of this program on CBC radio:

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2381331980

A rare and detailed account of a prostitute and brothel owner in the Canadian west during the late 1800s reveals the integral role prostitutes played in shaping the Canadian frontier. It was a period of huge transition where prostitution and so-called 'vice' became the focus of social uplift campaigns which gave birth to laws that are still in place today - laws currently dangling before the Supreme Court.

Quite an interesting listen.