Sister Communities
The sisters undertook the first mission by a female religious institute to Western Canada in 1844, when a colony of Grey Nuns left their convent in Montreal and travelled to Saint Boniface, on the shore of the Red River. Several sister communities branched off from the Sisters of Charity of Montreal:
- the Sisters of Charity of Saint-Hyacinthe (1840)
- the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa (1845) formerly the Grey Nuns of the Cross
- the Sisters of Charity of Quebec (1849)
- the Sisters of Charity of the Hôtel-Dieu of Nicolet (1886), branched off from Saint-Hyacinthe, united with Montreal (1941)
- the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart (1921), branched off from Ottawa, founders of D'Youville College
- the Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (1926), branched off from Ottawa
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