Traduction de «Filles de notre-Dame de la Miséricorde de Savona » (Français → Anglais) :

The dream of Archbishop MacDonell to establish a school for the education of girls became a reality when three sisters from the congregation of Notre Dame in Montreal arrived in Kingston on this day, November 21, in 1841.

Confessional education continued throughout the rest of the 17th century and girls were supervised by women who belonged to the Notre-Dame, Filles de la Croix and other religious orders.

Aldéa Landry, a lawyer and the first female Acadian member of cabinet, President of the provincial Liberal Party and the New Brunswick branch of the Canadian Bar Association; Mother Jeanne de Valois, whose maiden name was Bella Léger, the founder, in 1948, of the first classical college for young women in Acadia, Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie in Moncton; Katherine McNaughton, who received the first honoris causa doctorate at the University of New Brunswick, in recognition of her career as an educator and educational historian; my compatriot and colleague Muriel McQueen Fergusson, the first woman from Atlantic Canada to become a senator ...[+++]and the first woman to be Speaker of the Senate; Meriem Bela'ala, chair of SOS Femmes en détresse, an Algerian organization fighting for women's rights in that country whose centre opened an additional 40 spots yesterday; my two granddaughters, Céline and Clara-Rose whose intelligence and thirst for life point to a bright future that I pledge to provide; and my colleague and friend from Burkina Faso, Viviane Compaoré, Chair of the Réseau des femmes of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie.

I would like to reiterate my condolences to his family, to Mrs. Simard, as well as to his son and two daughters, whom I saw at his funeral, on June 22, at Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Church in Edmundston.