Feb 19, 1999 | Associates News
Those who make the decision to become an Associate of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul often find that the profound changes which occur in their lives are invisible to the outside world. While an incredible inner journey is taking place, there are few...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...