{"id":4961,"date":"2019-11-04T12:44:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/uncategorized\/mission-in-salem\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:45:20","slug":"mission-in-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/uncategorized\/mission-in-salem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission in Salem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 30, 1866, Sisters Elizabeth Christin, Mary-Ann Brennan, Elizabeth Bannon and Mary-Ann Mullin arrived from Montreal to found a new mission in Salem, Massachusetts, where a large community of French-Canadian immigrants from Quebec lived.<\/p>\n<p>This new mission was made possible by the donation of a lot of land and a house acquired by Mr. Thomas Looby. It housed orphaned children of both sexes as well as destitute old people.<\/p>\n<p>Originally located on Bridge Street, the mission was called Looby&#8217;s Asylum until 1871. It then moved to a larger building on Lafayette Street and was incorporated as the City Orphan Asylum.<\/p>\n<p>This institution did not escape the fire that ravaged much of the city of Salem on June 25, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3838\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3837 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/74156977_2972468609447136_2462693634315649024_o-700x446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"446\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3840\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3839 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/72945530_2972468906113773_1032142853830082560_o-700x493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"493\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On October 30, 1866, Sisters Elizabeth Christin, Mary-Ann Brennan, Elizabeth Bannon and Mary-Ann Mullin arrived from Montreal to found a new mission in Salem, Massachusetts, where a large community of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}