Born in Varennes (Quebec) on October 15, 1701, from an aristocratic family of New France, Marguerite is sixteen years old when her father dies. After spending two years in the boarding school of the Ursulines in Quebec City, she returns to Varennes to help her mother with the household tasks and trying “to earn enough […]
Read moreLaura Hickey was born October 17, 1889 in North Dakota (U.S.A.). The family moved to Calgary in 1902 and Laura became a day student at Sacred Heart Convent with M. Mary Greene and other Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus as her teachers until 1907. She attended Normal School before travelling to England to enter the […]
Read moreBorn in Edmonton, on May 11, 1913, Irene was the eldest of four daughters. Prior to entering the postulate of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax, in June 1937, Irene had attended Business College and worked for eight years as a stenographer and bookkeeper. Following her profession of vows in December 1939, Irene taught for […]
Read moreBorn in Oka (Quebec) on February 17, 1862, the seventh of a family of fourteen children, Ovide is two years old when his family moves to Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson. He can’t attend school, because it is 8 km away from home, and therefore is taught by his mother at home. When he is twelve he is confirmed […]
Read moreBorn in La Flèche (France), on March 18, 1597, he is the younger son of Jérôme Le Royer, first seigneur of La Dauversière, a local tax collector, and of Renée Oudin. He studies at the Jesuit College in La Flèche and wishes to enter the orders. But upon the death of his father in 1619, […]
Read moreMost Rev. Auguste Delisle was born in Montreal on July 7, 1908 from a very religious Christian family. From 1922 to 1927 he attends high school at the Collège Saint-Alexandre of Gatineau. He then joins the Congrégation du Saint-Esprit and takes his vows in Orly (France), on September 8 1931. He completes his theological studies […]
Read moreCatherine McKinley, Mother Mary Edward in religion, was the first General Superior of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul. She was born on August 14, 1837 in Kingston, Ontario, and trained as a dressmaker in Oswego, New York prior to seeking admission to the newly founded religious congregation in Kingston. On December […]
Read moreBorn on January 8, 1880, in Oshawa(Ontario), Henry Carr was one of nine children of William Carr and Margaret Quigley. A pious and gifted student, he was encouraged to continue his schooling after graduating from the local high school. A former teacher arranged for him to attend St. Michael’s College in Toronto in exchange for […]
Read moreBorn in Brittany (France) on March 4, 1876, from a poor but very devout family, Victor owes his faith above all to his mother. At age ten, he makes his first communion and hears a voice telling him: “Come and follow me”. His parents don’t have the money to send him to school. He therefore […]
Read moreGertrude Baker was born on January 3, 1873 in Birmingham, England. Her parents belonged to an upper middle-class English Anglican family. Her mother died giving birth to her fifth child. Gertrude and her young siblings were then cared for by her maternal grandmother. The Baker home was in the vicinity of an oratory recently opened […]
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