by Michael Hammond | Feb 11, 1999 | Obituaries
After a long and fruitful life, Sister Margaret Haughian died suddenly at Kingston General Hospital on February 11, 1999. She was eighty years old. Sister Margaret was born in Stanleyville, Ontario, on October 13, 1918. After the death of her mother at childbirth,...
by Michael Hammond | Dec 23, 1998 | Obituaries
After a long and fruitful life, Sister Mary Denise, Sister of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul died at Providence Motherhouse, Kingston, Ontario on December 23, 1998. Her parents, the descendants of emigrant farmers from Northern Ireland, settled in Lanark Township,...
by Michael Hammond | Oct 24, 1998 | Sisters News
Sister Marilyn Kearns was intensely moved by the letter from the woman who had escaped a life of domestic violence. “Thank you,” the woman wrote to Sister Marilyn and her co-workers at a Montreal shelter for battered women. “Thank you for listening, for caring, for...
by Michael Hammond | Oct 24, 1998 | Sisters News
BY JAMIE SWIFT The following remembrance of Sister Mary Hamilton appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail on October 23, 1998. It is reprinted here with permission of the author. In the 1930s, whenever Sister Mary Hamilton managed a few days off from her nursing duties...
by Michael Hammond | Oct 13, 1998 | Obituaries
Spring was late coming in 1909, but Mary Margaret Theresa Hamilton arrived on time, on April 30 to be welcomed by her parents, Elizabeth (Donovan) and Robert, of Elgin. She also lit up the life of her two siblings who preceded her into this world, Gerald and Evelyn....
