Apr 15, 2015 | Providence Flashbacks
Sr. M. Melanie Coligan in the “Peak” and the “Round” headdress. BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST Excerpt from Congregational Annals of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul April 15, 1954 – Holy Thursday. At last the day appointed for changing our...
Apr 7, 2015 | Archives News
Members of the Kingston branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society Kingston undertook the significant job of transcribing the Congregation’s records of the home children. Here, OGS representatives present Sisters of Providence archivist Veronica Steinburg (left) with...
Mar 31, 2015 | Associates News
The Associates formation program continued in March with a day focused on the Kingston founders of the Congregation. BY SISTER IRENE WILSON These founders and the issues of the day were dramatized for the gathering. Kingston Bishop Horan was performed by Sr. Catherine...
Mar 30, 2015 | Obituaries
Monica Gannon was born on September 29, 1922 on the family farm in Greenview, Ontario, the fifth of seven children born to Elizabeth Cassidy and Joseph Gannon. When Monica was four years old, her father moved the family to Prince Edward County to take up farming once...
Mar 15, 2015 | Providence Flashbacks
BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST March 15 is Saint Louise de Marillac’s feast day! Louise de Marillac was born on August 12, 1591, near Meux in France. In 1613, at the behest of her family, she married Antony LeGras, the secretary to the Queen Mother, Marie de Medici....
