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米国コネチカット州ウォーターベリー生まれ。ウォーターベリー・カトリック・ハイスクールの生徒だった時、コングレガシオンについて知る。1977年、コネチカット州ウエスト・ハートフォードのサン・ジョゼフ大学で生物学の学士号取得。2年間の教職を経て、1982…

1620

Marguerite Bourgeoys is born in Troyes, France.

1653

Marguerite Bourgeoys arrives in New France with the “Grande Recrue”. Her objective is to open a school. When she arrives in Montreal, there are still too few school-aged children for her to carry out her goal.

1655

Marguerite Bourgeoys begins construction of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, but work is suspended in 1657. Marguerite Bourgeoys will have to wait more than 20 years before her dream is realized.

1658

Marguerite Bourgeoys opens the first school in Ville-Marie in a former stable. The children helped clean and prepare their school.

1658

Marguerite Bourgeoys, accompanied by Jeanne Mance, makes her first voyage back to France. Marguerite returns to Ville-Marie (Montreal) with four recruits.

1669

Bishop François de Laval gives Marguerite Bourgeoys and her companions permission to teach wherever they are needed in his diocesewhich comprises all of New France.

1670

Marguerite Bourgeoys returns to France a second time to promote her plan for an uncloistered community.

1671

The “Institut des Filles séculières de la Congrégation de Notre-Dame” obtains Letters Patent signed by King Louis XIV.

1673

Marguerite Bourgeoys has an addition built onto the stable-school (which is considered the first CND Mother House). This building becomes the second Mother House of the Congregation.

1676

After having given Marguerite and her companions permission to teach in his diocese (which comprises all of New France), Bishop de Laval officially approves the “Institut des Filles séculières de la Congrégation de Notre-Dame.”

1676

Companions of Marguerite Bourgeoys begin teaching young Amerindians at the Mountain Mission on Mont Royal (a wild forest at the time).

1678

Marguerite Bourgeoys sees one of her dreams come true: the first stone church in Ville-Marie (Montreal) is finally opened after three years of construction. It is completely destroyed by a terrible fire in 1754 and then rebuilt between 1771 and 1773.

1679

In her lifetime, Marguerite Bourgeoys crosses the Atlantic Ocean seven times, a particularly daring odyssey in the XVIIth century.

1683

1684

The third Mother House of the Congregation is built on Notre-Dame Street. It is destroyed by fire in 1768. In total, over the years, there will be eight different Mother Houses.

1693

Marie Barbier (Sister de l’Assomption), first Sister of the Congregation born in Montreal, succeeds Marguerite Bourgeoys as superior.

1698

The rules written by Bishop de Saint-Vallier are accepted by the members of the Congregation. The first religious professions take place in Ville-Marie (Montreal) and Quebec.

1700

Marguerite Bourgeoys dies at age 79. The only portrait of Marguerite Bourgeoys is sketched at her wake and painted in the weeks that followed. This painting can be contemplated at the Marguerite-Bourgeoys Museum in Montreal.

1534

Jacques Cartier plants a cross in Gaspé and takes possession of the territory in the name of the king of France.

1604

The first French colony in North America is established on Saint Croix Island in Acadia by Pierre Du Gua de Monts, accompanied by Samuel de Champlain.

1608

Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec City. This marks the beginning of French colonization in the St-Lawrence Valley. Champlain dreams of expanding the territorial empire of France and enriching it through the fur trade.

1615

The Récollets are Catholic missionaries placed in charge of the religious education of the French settlers and the evangelization of the Amerindians.

1625

The missionary Jesuits arrive in Quebec to evangelize the Amerindians. In 1653, they found Collège de Québec where they offer classical education to young French settlers.

1627

The Company of New France or of One Hundred Associates groups together one hundred merchants and aristocrats. Its mandate consists of promoting the colonization of New France in exchange for a monopoly of the fur trade.

1634

Trois-Rivières is the second oldest city in Canada. Quebec is the oldest city. Trois-Rivières, located at the confluence of the St-Lawrence and the three channels of the Saint-Maurice River, is strategically important to the fur trade. This is why Samuel de Champlain, with the intention of…

1639

The Ursulines teach young girls at their house in the Lower Town of Quebec. The Augustinian Hospitallers found the Hôtel Dieu de Québec Hospital to treat the inhabitants and the native people of the area.

1641

The French and Iroquois War lasts 25 years despite numerous peace treaties.

1642

Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance, with some fifty other people, found Ville-Marie (Montreal). The religious ideal of the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal inspires the establishment of the colony. The Island of Montreal is a favourable place to establish a village which rapidly…

1653

In 1653, and again in 1659, the arrival of some one hundred new colonists revives the colony. They commit themselves to clearing the land they have been granted.