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The Sisters of Charity of Montreal, formerly called The Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal and more commonly known as the Grey Nuns of Montreal, is a Canadian religious institute of Roman Catholic religious sisters, founded in 1737 by Marguerite d'Youville, a young widow. [1]
Visiting the sick remains an important ministry in Canada and Peru. [5] As early as 1857, the Sisters were invited to establish the first of five convent-schools in New Brunswick's northern Acadian area. The Sisters came to Saskatchewan in 1906, when three sisters arrived in Prince Albert to care for and teach the children at St. Patrick's ...
The Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul were founded in 1849 in Halifax, Nova Scotia from New York; this has been designated a National Historic Event. [12] They came in response to a request by then Archbishop of Halifax William Walsh.
From its opening in 1929 to its closing in 1967, the Sisters of Charity operated the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, the grounds of which were designated by Parks Canada a national historic site based on its history of widespread sexual, physical and psychological abuse of indigenous children. In 2021 the Sisters of Charity posted an ...
The community of Sisters of Providence or more accurately, "Daughters of Charity, Servants of the Poor", was founded in Montreal, Canada, by Bishop Ignace Bourget and Madame Jean Baptiste Gamelin (Marie Emélie Eugénie Tavernier), 25 March 1843.
Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception (Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada) Les Religieuses de Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur, (Dieppe, New Brunswick) Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth (Convent Station, New Jersey) Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception (Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada) Les Religieuses de Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur, (Dieppe, New Brunswick) Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul – Halifax (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), also known as the Sisters of Charity ...
The building was constructed in the nineteenth century to serve as a motherhouse for the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, formerly called The Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal and more commonly known as the Grey Nuns of Montreal, a Canadian religious institute of Roman Catholic religious sisters, founded in 1737 by Saint Marguerite d'Youville.