Thanksgiving Means

Oct 17, 2014 | Providence Flashbacks

Thanksgiving dinner at Cassidy Street Group Home in Kingston, 1973. From centre left to Right: Sister M. Bernadette, Sister Diane McNamara and Sister Muriel Gallagher. BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST Visiting friends and family…1905, October 26 – The holiday...

Sisters look to future plans

Oct 15, 2014 | About Us News

Sr. Sandra Shannon, being shown plans for the new St. Mary’s hospital. The current hospital is on land owned by the Sisters of Providence. Photo courtesy Providence Care. For the congregation that has ministered in health care, education and social work, and spent...

Sister Mary Ellen Killeen

Oct 3, 2014 | Obituaries

Mary Ellen Killeen, born in Timmins, Ontario, on March 29, 1921, was the fifth of seven children of Daniel Killeen and Anne Lennon.  She grew up in Timmins attending Holy Family School and Timmins Secondary and Vocational School. She learned hairdressing as an...

Sr. Mary Mathews’ Science Class

Sep 16, 2014 | Providence Flashbacks

BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST The Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul taught at St. Michael’s High School in Belleville from 1930 to 1960. The congregation served the community in Belleville through various ministries from 1900 to 2013. Sr. Mary Matthew...

Look to the seed – a spirits-up ecology story

Sep 3, 2014 | Heirloom Seed Sanctuary stories

BY CATE HENDERSON Those of you who were in attendance at the spring equinox celebration may remember our meditation on the seed – that through kindness alone plants grow from one seed to produce many, many seeds. There is no selfish reason for this, and economists and...