Sister Mary Adrian O’Rourke

Sister Mary Adrian O’Rourke

Sister Mary Adrian, Anna Winnifred O’Rourke, was born at Curran, Prescott County, Ontario, on January 20, 1890, the only daughter in the family of Martin O’Rourke and Winnifred Fisher. She was baptized five days later in the parish church of St. Luke. On January 10,...
Sister Mary Rita Farrelly

Sister Mary Rita Farrelly

Sister Mary Rita, daughter of Bernard Farrelly and Elizabeth Walker Farrelly, was born at Kingston Mills on April 7, 1889 and baptized at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Kingston on May 12, 1889. After elementary and junior High School she took a business course and on March 1,...
Sister Anna Marie Laffan

Sister Anna Marie Laffan

Anna Marie Laffan, daughter of Thomas Laffan and Mary Golden was born in the parish of Greensboro, Kingston diocese, on July 11, 1895. On August 15, 1914, at the age of nineteen she entered the Novitiate of the Sisters of Providence, but homesickness for her parents...
Sister Mary Cecile Koster

Sister Mary Cecile Koster

Sister Mary Cecile, the former Kathleen Cecilia Koster, was born in Toronto on November 12, 1893, daughter of Matthew Koster and Catherine McDonnell. She was educated at Sr. Patrick’s School and St. Joseph’s Convent. Although Cecilia (or Cecile as she was called) felt...
Sister Mary Blanche Corrigan

Sister Mary Blanche Corrigan

Mary Alice Corrigan was born at St. Foy, Quebec on July 28, 1889, one of eight children of Thomas Corrigan and Helen McCartney, and was baptized three days later in the parish church of St. Foy. As a young woman she graduated from the Nurses’ Training School of the...