The Novice in the Sewing Room

Nov 24, 2020 | Providence Flashbacks

BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST Muriel Black entered the Sisters of Providence as a postulant in August 1950 and received the Habit in March 1951. Sister Black made first profession in August 1952 taking the religious name Sister Stella Maris. As a novice, Sister...

Campaign for Oxygen in Carabayllo

Nov 19, 2020 | Peru News

Persons line up for 2-3 days in order to refill oxygen tanks at inflated prices for covid-19 patients. The Marillac Mission Fund has contributed $10,000 US to this campaign for oxygen in Carabayllo, Peru. BY SISTER SARA JIMENEZ ANGULO & CARMEN ALOMIA GUIA Sister...

Learning Home Economics

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...

A Summer Outing

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....

Looking Back to the Smallpox Epidemic of 1879

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...