by Michael Hammond | Oct 7, 2020 | Providence Flashbacks
BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST Sister Mary Anita taught Grade 7 Home Economics from 1954 to 1958 at St. Michael’s Academy in Belleville, Ontario. Here are a few photos of her students during those...
by Michael Hammond | Jul 3, 2020 | Providence Flashbacks
A vintage postcard of the Varuna, a passenger steamboat that plied the Bay of Quinte from 1880 to the 1920s. BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST A lovely summer excursion by two Sisters in Trenton to Lake on the Mountain near Picton, as described in the Annals of St....
by Michael Hammond | Jun 26, 2020 | Providence Flashbacks
Postcard of Mill Street, Deseronto, ca.1900. Courtesy of the Deseronto Archives. BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST The COVID-19 crisis has been likened to the 1918 Flu epidemic; yet, if we look in the Archives there are also many similarities with smaller localized...
by Michael Hammond | Jun 2, 2020 | Providence Flashbacks
BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST COVID-19 is not the only pandemic in the Sisters of Providence’s history to prevent Jubilees from being celebrated. Historically jubilees were not celebrated altogether annually in June the way they are now. Instead they were...
by Michael Hammond | Apr 30, 2020 | Providence Flashbacks
BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST St. Michael’s Band, a rhythm band, was formed in 1934 in Belleville by Sister Mary Mercedes. The students were originally recruited from Grade 1 at St. Michael’s Academy and many of the same children stayed in the band into their high...
