Chez Doris, an organization that helps Montreal’s most vulnerable and marginalized women, has received a significant gift in its campaign to renovate and reopen the Fulford Residence — one that brings it within striking distance of its $8-million fundraising goal .

The $3-million gift is notable because it is from the board of Fulford’s owning corporation, Fulford Residence, from which Chez Doris purchased the historic downtown building in May 2024 — and because it brings full circle the mission of Mary Fulford, who as the wife of Montreal’s first Anglican bishop, Francis Fulford, founded Fulford in 1855 “for the counsel and protection” of single women arriving from abroad to be governesses and schoolteachers or seek employment. The Church Home, as it was known, was located initially on S

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