Sister Mary Avita McGuire

Sister Mary Avita McGuire

Beatrice McGuire was born in Strathcona, Ontario, on June 23, 1908. She was the middle child of a family of nine to be born to James Patrick McGuire and his wife, Mary Agnes (Kennedy). This family of five boys and four girls lived in a big, white limestone farm house...
Sister Mary Clare Doran

Sister Mary Clare Doran

Stella Mary Doran was born in Belleville, Ontario, the eldest child of Elizabeth (Ford) and William Doran. She was to have five brothers, two of whom, (Charles and John) were still living at the time of her death. In 1944, her brother, Arthur (Art), who was three...
Sister Mary Therese Doyle

Sister Mary Therese Doyle

Mary Gertrude Doyle was born the second child of a family of five to Thomas Patrick Doyle and Ellen McDonald in Forest Mills, Ontario on March 4th, 1913. She was baptized sixteen days later in St. Charles Church, Read, and Ontario. Her elder brother, John, was three...
Sister Margaret McDonald

Sister Margaret McDonald

Margaret McDonald made her entry into life in a quiet country home in Glengarry, Ontario, sometimes referred to by her Scottish friends and relatives as God’s country. Because there were several McDonald families living in the area, Margaret’s family was...
Sister Monica Shea

Sister Monica Shea

Margaret Monica Shea was born in Vinton, Quebec on January 30, 1914. Vinton, Quebec could have been a village transplanted from Ireland. Almost every family living there on the banks of the Ottawa River was Irish Catholic. The people made their living on farms which...