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The Sisters are welcomed to a new mission

1823 - Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec - Illustration : Francis Back

In the 19th century more missions opened in Quebec. Pastors asked the Congrégation de Notre-Dame to provide teachers for their parishes. Often, because of a lack of available Sisters, many requests were refused and some parishes had to wait for several years. However, Msgr. Plessis, Bishop of…

Act of profession of vows by the Sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame residing at the missions in Quebec, Île Saint-Laurent and Côte de Beaupré

1698 - Quebec, Quebec

After the Sisters in Montreal, the six Sisters in Quebec made the same commitment on August 5 of the following year during a ceremony presided over by Bishop de Saint-Vallier in the chapel of the Quebec Seminary.

Missionary actions of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame - Cameroon: interview with Sister Solange Monfet

2009

Sister Solange Monfet recalls her experience as a missionary of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame in Africa.

She recounts how she arrived in Cameroon with five other companions in 1970. She and three other companions worked at the collège de Makak. At that time, Cameroon had been…

Congrégation de Notre-Dame Missions in Latin America: interview with Sister Cécile Duplain

2009

Sister Cécile Duplain recalls the very beginning of the missions of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame in Central America.

She leaves Canada with four other Sisters on June 23, 1962. During their stay in Cuernavaca, in the suburbs of Mexico, they study Spanish as well as the…

Regroupement Jeunesse en marche activity at école Claude-Champagne

1968 - Montreal, Quebec

From left to right: Sister Béatrice Pépin (Sainte-Aimée-de-Marie), the person responsible for the Regroupement Jeunesse en marche de Rosemont, Sister Georgette Gaudette (Saint-Jean-d’Ars), Directress and 7th grade teacher at Claude-Champagne School, Ms. Paulette Robichaud, Sister Thérèse…

Estimate of the cost of rebuilding the church and chancel

1844 - Montreal, Quebec

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Mother House and the Church of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame were dilapidated. The Sisters constructed new buildings at the same location on Notre-Dame Street. The Sisters settled into their fourth Mother House in 1844 and the Church was inaugurated in…

Article entitled "La grande influence de M. Robert Schmitz" taken from the newspaper La Presse

1933 - Montreal, Quebec

Established in 1926 and affiliated with the Institut pédagogique de Montréal, the École normale de musique, administered by the Sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, also welcomed several lay teachers who contributed to the renowned reputation of the school. Among them was Élie Robert…

Painting workshop

1895 - [Waterbury, Connecticut, United States]

Weaving workshop at Institut familial Chanoine-Beaudet

1952 - Saint-Pascal-de-Kamouraska (Saint-Pascal), Quebec

Saint Ann Academy Library

1947 - Montreal, Quebec - Photography : Rapid Grip and Batten Studios

Library at Mont Sainte-Marie Convent

1909 - Montreal, Quebec

Mother House laundry room

1908 - Montreal, Quebec

Record of the work done for the Sulpicians

1740 - Lac des Deux-Montagnes (Oka), New France (Quebec)

The Sisters teaching in the missions were helped by the parish but they also provided for themselves. Among other tasks, they sewed and took care of the vestments, as this document shows.

Stenography book belonging to Miss M. A. Dubé

1900 - Saint-Pascal-de-Kamouraska (Saint-Pascal), Quebec

Card accompanying the scholarship, awarded to Miss Newcomb from Villa Maria boarding school, to be given the victims of the Saguenay Fire

1870 - Montreal, Quebec

In the spring of 1870, the farmers in Saguenay set fire to areas of land where trees had been cut for farming. However, dry weather and strong winds spread the fire over a 3,900 sq. km surface. Hundreds of people were killed or were left without resources. The Great Fire of 1870 resulted in an…

Catherine Crolo, the farmhands and little girls at the farm

1670 - Pointe Saint-Charles (Montreal), New France (Quebec) - Illustration : Francis Back. Photography : Bernard Dubois

In 1668, Catherine Crolo, Marguerite Bourgeoys’s first companion who had arrived in 1659, took charge of the Pointe Saint-Charles farm house, known today as Maison Saint-Gabriel. She was responsible for the development and the administration of the lands which were farmed on a large-scale and on…

Annual events and ceremonies at the Congrégation de Notre-Dame during the mid-twentieth century: interview with Sister Denise Lamarche

2009 - Montreal, Quebec

Sister Denise Lamarche recalls events and ceremonies at the Congrégation de Notre-Dame during important annual feasts around the 1950’s.

She remembers that on New Year’s Day the parlour of the Mother House would be bustling. The Sisters welcomed their relatives there at a time…

Transfer of land to the Congregation by Pierre Boucher

1705 - Bourg de Boucherville (Boucherville), New France (Quebec)

Pierre Boucher, seigneur of Boucherville, ceded to the Sisters of the Congregation a piece of land eighty feet along its front and one hundred and seventy feet deep which was situated near the church and where a small chapel was constructed in honour of the Blessed Virgin. The transaction took…