Janice Konstantinidis, shares a current photograph, as well as her
detailed history of her time from the age of 12 working in the laundry
of Mount Saint Canice, Tasmania, one of the Magdalena laundries,
nicknamed “The Mag”. Janice also includes recollections of the lengths
some girls would go to in order to escape.
Mount Saint Canice... At the age of twelve, I was taken by my grandparents and father to Mount Saint Canice, one of the Magdalene Laundries. The laundry was run by the Order of Good Shepherd Nuns in Hobart, Tasmania. There were a number of these laundries in Australia, as well as in other parts of the world. I am not sure how or why it came to pass that women and children were taken in by the nuns, but I know that the courts had no hesitation in sending adolescent girls to these homes for punishment.
http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/02/28/life-in-the-mag/
Mount Saint Canice... At the age of twelve, I was taken by my grandparents and father to Mount Saint Canice, one of the Magdalene Laundries. The laundry was run by the Order of Good Shepherd Nuns in Hobart, Tasmania. There were a number of these laundries in Australia, as well as in other parts of the world. I am not sure how or why it came to pass that women and children were taken in by the nuns, but I know that the courts had no hesitation in sending adolescent girls to these homes for punishment.
http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/02/28/life-in-the-mag/
