Sister Mary Hildegarde Rushman

Sister Mary Hildegarde Rushman

Sister Mary Hildegarde, eldest of ten children of Nicholas Rushman and Mary Ellen Servage, was born on December 5, 1897 at Crysler, Ontario in Alexandria diocese. She was educated by the Holy Cross Sisters and as a very young stenographer-bookkeeper in a law firm in...
Sister Mary Bernice McGuiggan

Sister Mary Bernice McGuiggan

Mary Veronica McGuiggan was born in Perth on January 21, 1895, and baptized six days later at St. John’s Church by Reverend Father Duffus. Her parents, Patrick McGuiggan and Catherine Quinn, belonged to pioneer families of North Burgess Township, Lanark County, a...
Sister Mary Hilary Harrigan

Sister Mary Hilary Harrigan

Eleanor Harrigan, the eldest of the four daughters of Barnabas Harrigan and Anne McGarvey, was born on January 5, 1885 in the parish of Railton, Ontario and was baptized on January 25 by Father Thomas Kelly at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Kingston. In 1912 she entered the...
Sister Anna Catherine Way

Sister Anna Catherine Way

Anna Catherine Way was born April 3, 1893 on a farm in the parish of Erinsville, Ontario, one of seven children of Patrick Way and Margaret Murphy Way. When at the age of twenty-one she applied for admission to the Novitiate of the Sisters of Providence, her pastor,...
Sister Mary Francis Borgia Barry

Sister Mary Francis Borgia Barry

Elizabeth Helena Barry was born on a farm in the parish of Morrisburg, Ontario on August 4, 1884, one of nine children of James and Sarah Barry. After graduating from the local high school she attended Ottawa Teachers’ College and taught for a few years in schools...