The visit at the Musée des Soeurs Hospitalières helped students assess the reality of Quebec women’s lives. Students  were divided into 2 sub-groups each accompanied with a guide who lectured them for a full hour. . Many students were surprised to see the lives of cloistered nuns in the 19th century (they visited their parloir, their refectoire and their cell). The book of entries of the young girls (they had to decipher the handwriting) provided interesting insights on the lives of these women in the 1820s (level of poverty / age they started their noviciate/ the dowry they brought to the congregation/ the tight control exercised by the bishop over these women/ the ability to professionally fulfill themselves inside the congregation, etc.) This visit enables students to assess the role of women in nineteenth-century society and to raise questions about feminism. This visit also provides a great opportunity to explore history outside of class and to link what we learn in class to the actual historical buildings we cross every day without really seeing them (Hotel-Dieu Hospital and the sisters’ monastery). It is a great opportunity to have students reflect on the rights women gained in the course of the 20th century.