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interval house
DCHP-2 (Jan 2013)
n.
a home operated by a volunteer collective or social services organization, usually to accommodate and support abused women and their children.
Type: 5. Frequency — Interval house is most frequent in Canada based on internet domain searches (see Chart 1). The term may have originated in Canada as well, since the earliest US newspaper attestation dates from 1978. The 1977 quotation below indicates the term may originate with the proper name of the Toronto Interval House, which opened on 1 April 1973 (see CKC reference).
See also COD-2, s.v. "interval house", which is marked "Cdn".
See also COD-2, s.v. "interval house", which is marked "Cdn".
See: transition house
Quotations
1977
Nellie's welcomes women from every social class. It is the only hostel in Toronto that will take almost any woman. Interval House and Women in Transition take women with children.
1979
If NAC is not part of the women's movement - what on earth are we? Our member groups include interval houses, rape crisis centres, immigrant women's groups, women's referral and counselling services as well as the Federation des Femmes du Quebec, the Y.W.C.A., the Business and Professional Women's Clubs and many other conventional women's groups and status of women committees
1995
A counsellor at a Toronto interval house was quoted as saying the senator's remarks were "ludicrous and inflammatory."
2004
Morrow herself helped found an Interval House of Hamilton-Wentworth in the 1990s, a shelter that printed its name on the front of the building from the start.
References
- COD-2
- CKC • Interval House
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