Formation and career of Sister Lucie Blondeau: interview with Sister Lucie Blondeau

Sister Lucie Bondeau recounts her experience teaching Home Economics at the University of Ottawa.

She mentions how it was at the invitation of the Oblate Fathers that the Sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame set up a Home Economics Department in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa.

She mentions that she arrived during the 1958-1959 academic year and she taught Physics, Basic Cuisine and Food Chemistry. She speaks more specifically about her experience teaching Textile Chemistry. It was an enormous challenge because the course had to be created from beginning to end. She underlines the degree to which her trust in God was a precious asset in the accomplishment of this task.