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Today we celebrate the 322nd anniversary of the birth of Marguerite d’Youville. First Canadian-born saint, she was the founder and inspiration behind the Grey Nuns of Montreal’s congregation. We invite […]
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It’s pumpkin time! Why not bake a pumpkin pie from the Grey Nuns of Montreal regional housekeeping school’s course manual?
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152 years ago today, the Grey Nuns and their 300 residents left the Montreal General Hospital, considered their first Mother House, for their new Mother House in the countryside (today […]
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Happy World Teachers’ Day! Today, we’d like to introduce you to two members of the Grey Nuns of Montreal who have worked in this profession. Sister Marie-Rose Lacroix (1895-1989) had […]
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On this World Architecture Day, we share photographs of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital model and of a 1950 meeting of the medical board where plans for the future hospital are being […]
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On this World Tourism Day, the archives show us that in 1959, traveling in Europe was a great adventure and required a great deal of preparation. From April to May […]
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On September 16, 1855, the General Administration of the Grey Nuns agreed to found an orphanage in Toledo, Ohio. It was the beginning of a long presence in this American […]
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Source: ASGM, F054B, Chez nous by Sr Flore Barette, s.g.m., harvest at Ferme St-Charles (Montreal), circa 195-
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It’s harvest time! Here are a few photos from our archives showing the nuns at work on the various farms they owned.
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Did you miss historian Dominique Laperle’s lecture on Marguerite d’Youville as part of the Fondation Lionel-Groulx’s “Figures marquantes de la solidarité” series? Or would you like to listen to it […]
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