by Michael Hammond | 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...
by Michael Hammond | 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....
by Michael Hammond | Feb 24, 2015 | Obituaries
Loretto Boland was born in Toronto on June 5, 1917, the second of seven children of Josephine Bulger and George Boland. She attended St. Helen’s Elementary School where she was taught by the Loretto Sisters and then Loretto High School on Brunswick Avenue for two...
by Michael Hammond | Feb 12, 2015 | Associates News
Thirty years ago, in reading the signs of the times, the Sisters of Providence created a new form of relationship. They created an Associate process, with a commitment of one year at a time, that drew women and men eager to live out their baptismal call to service....
by Michael Hammond | Feb 12, 2015 | Obituaries
Margaret Josephine (Peggy) Flanagan born on February 27, 1938 in Newmarket, Ontario was the second youngest of five children of William Flanagan and Alice Bell. She grew up in the small community of Schomberg, Ontario. After graduating from Toronto Teachers’ College,...
