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Grey Nun
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a member of a congregation of nuns founded in 1747 in Montreal, devoted to social service.
See: Grey Sister
Quotations
1817
No person shall bathe in any part of the river between the Grey Nuns' House, called Point St. Charles, and Mr. Molson's Brewery below St. Mary Suburb, under the penalty of five shillings.
1873
Four ladies of the order of Grey Nuns have made their home here, and their school already contains some thirty children.
1964
Catholic Father Lesage, a distant relation of the Quebec premier, is responsible for a large Metis church fold, a separate school and the town's hospital administered by an order of Grey Nuns.