by Michael Hammond | Dec 4, 2015 | Providence Flashbacks
BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST Excerpts from Congregational Annals of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul December 24, 1933 All in holy preparation for the great feast tomorrow. The chapel looks very sweet in its austere simplicity and pretty decoration...
by Michael Hammond | Nov 24, 2015 | Obituaries
Margaret Jean Higgins was born on August 21, 1943 in Belleville, Ontario, the third oldest of thirteen children of Edith Dempsey and John Higgins. She trained as a Registered Nursing Assistant at St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in Brockville graduating in 1960. On...
by Michael Hammond | Nov 17, 2015 | About Us News
This past weekend of November 13-15, I had the opportunity to take in the weekend retreat offered by Fr. Ron Rolheiser OMI at Star of the North Retreat Centre here in Alberta. The theme of the retreat was Mirroring the Greatness of Life: Respecting and Accessing our...
by Michael Hammond | Nov 6, 2015 | Peace
RH Thomson’s The World Remembers Project has the remarkable ambition of displaying the names of all 26 million people who died during World War I, regardless of country, regardless if they were soldiers or what has come to be called, “collateral...
by Michael Hammond | Nov 3, 2015 | Providence Flashbacks
BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST Opening the doors, 50 years ago The open house at the Motherhouse this October got me wondering about past open houses and I discovered that a series of three was held in November 1964. They were held to show off the newly-completed...
