Jeanne Mance
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Jeanne Mance was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first
Monument to Jeanne Mance, sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hebert, in front of the Hotel-Dieu de Montreal
Testament, recto
Testament, verso
Jeanne Mance Monument
Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
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The Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal was the first hospital established in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Jeanne Mance
…arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospital, the Hotel-Dieu de Montreal, in 1645. She returned twice to France to seek financial support for the hospital. After providing most of the care directly for years, in 1657 she…
Hotel Dieu de Montreal 16 MARCH 2006
The Hôtel-Dieu campus seen from Mount Royal.
CHUM depuis l'avenue Viger