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....
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...
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...
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...
Apr 24, 2020 | Integrity of Creation and Climate Change, Justice, Peace
The JPIC Committee meeting held using Zoom video conferencing. BY BRIDGET DOHERTY, JPIC DIRECTOR “The Gospel, our Church’s social justice teachings, the spirit of Vatican II, the congregational constitutions, charism and Mission Statements repeatedly urge us to...
