Date Published:
March 2005

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

Chanoinesses Régulières

des Cinq Plaies du Sauveur

Chanoinesses Régulières des Cinq Plaies du Sauveur . The Institute of Les Chanoinesses Régulières des Cinq Plaies du Sauveur was founded in France in 1856 with the object of honouring the passion of the Saviour. With this object, the Sisters recite the daily breviary, and devote their lives to charitable work, mainly to the Christian education of youth. In 1895, three Sisters arrived in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Manitoba ; subsequently other houses were opened in the same province, in Saskatchewan , and in Quebec. In 1913, the western residences were separated from the French mother-house, and became an autonomous community known as the Institut Canadien des Chanoinesses, while the Ottawa convent - which was later transferred to Hull - remained a dependency of the French congregation.

Source  : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 33.