Sister Agnes Sutherland
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Northwest Territories, News/North, vol. 73, issue 16, Monday, August 20, 2018.
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Nurses Day – Marguerite d’Youville Institute (1934-1967)
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For the International Nurses Day, here is the history of the Marguerite d’Youville Institute (1934-1967). In 1934 the Grey Nuns founded a School of Nursing of Higher Education affiliated with […]
View articleThe Youville Crèche [Nursery]
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Mother d’Youville received the first “foundling” at the Montreal General Hospital in 1754, beginning over two centuries of receiving & caring for abandoned children. A wing of the hospital was […]
View articleMaisonneuve Hospital (1949-1967)
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In 1949 the Grey Nuns accepted a proposal from the Provincial Health Minister to create a 500-bed hospital in Montreal’s east-end and the following year the Maisonneuve Hospital Corporation was […]
View articleFilm by Sr. Flore Barrette, s.g.m.
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Our viewing suggestion for you today is a film excerpt made in the 1950s by Sr. Flore Barrette, s.g.m. (1897-1984). The Chronicles of the Mother House Studio allow us to […]
View articleHome Economics School (1905-1964)
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The School was founded in the Grey Nuns Motherhouse in 1905 for the resident young female orphans. Its stated mission was to provide training in Christian virtues, to prepare them […]
View articleBon Jour Toi Center
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Exactly 35 years ago, Bishop Grégoire blessed the premises of the Bon Jour Toi Center, inaugurated two weeks earlier. Located at 1187 St-Mathieu Street, in the Saint-Mathieu Wing of the […]
View articleMonsignor Chaumont Institute (1957-1971)
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Cardinal Paul-Émile Leger, the Grey Nuns agreed in 1957 to manage an educational program for epileptic children, having previous experience with the education of epileptic children in Chambly and in […]
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