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1931 - Montreal, Quebec

September 21, 1931 saw the opening of the first high school for English speaking Catholic students in Montreal. The school was built on Pine Avenue between Jeanne-Mance and Sainte-Famille Streets, and was named in honour of the statesman and journalist of Irish descent, Thomas D’Arcy McGee. When…

1898 - Pointe-Saint-Charles (Montreal), Quebec

1668 - Pointe-Saint-Charles (Montreal), Quebec

1733 - Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

1962 - Manchester

1957 - Montmagny, Quebec

1870 - Montreal, Quebec

1858 - Montreal, Quebec

Around 1853, the neighbourhood known at the time as Pied-du-Courant numbered only a few households. A chapel was built on the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Fullum Streets, but there was no school. It was then that the sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame started their work among the…

1732 - Montreal, Quebec

1663 - Ville-Marie (Montreal), Quebec

1935 - Montreal, Quebec

In April 1935, the Congrégation de Notre-Dame sisters became involved with Pie XI School located at 674 Westminster Street, Montreal. The pastor of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Parish, Father M. A. Bissonnette, also president of the school board…

1950 - River Ryan (New Victoria), Nova Scotia

1969 - Oita

In June, 1969, to answer a request from Bishop Saburo Hirata, Bishop of the Diocese of Oita, it was decided to open a CND mission in Oita. Oita is a city where one of the first Catholic churches in Japan was built when St. Francis Xavier was evangelizing in Japan in the 16th…

1721 - Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes (Oka), Quebec

1960 - Ottawa, Ontario

Queen of Angels Elementary School opened its doors on September 3, 1960 on Heron Road, in the Alta Vista district. At the request of the Ottawa Separate School Board, the Congregation agreed to take on the administration of this new school. The school was a branch of Notre Dame Convent which, at…

1930 - Ottawa, Ontario

Saint Theresa School, previously known as Holy Angels’ School, was established in 1890. When Saint Theresa Parish was established in 1930, the Sisters of the Congregation took charge of the school and annexed it to Notre Dame Convent, Ottawa. Sisters Sainte-Marie-Aloysia (Anna Murphy) and…

1955 - Pictou, Nova Scotia

1953 - Pointe-Claire, Quebec

1961 - Pointe-Claire, Quebec

1962 - Port Hood, Nova Scotia

1864 - Portland

1864 - Portland

1958 - Quebec, Quebec

1950 - Sainte-Foy (Quebec), Quebec

In September 1950, Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin School opened. It was requested and funded by the Sainte-Foy School Commission in Quebec City. The school was situated near Notre-Dame-de-Bellevue Convent which belonged to the Congrégation de Notre-Dame. This seemed very practical for the school…

1948 - Beauport (Quebec), Quebec

In 1920, the two classrooms of Beauport Convent-School could no longer receive all enrolled girl students. The superintendent Mr. Cyrille Delage, asked that the Beauport School Commission build a new school. At first, it refused and two additional classes were built in the parish …

1897 - Quebec, Quebec

1959 - Sainte-Foy (Quebec), Quebec

1686 - Quebec, Quebec

1951 - Richmond, Quebec

n 1951, the Richmond School Commission decided to build a new school because the overpopulated Mont Saint-Patrice Boarding School could no longer accommodate the town’s large student population. At the request of Most Reverend Philippe Desranleau, Bishop of Sherbrooke, the school was built in…

1960 - Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec