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Bruyère Continuing Care, located on the former site of the Ottawa General hospital, is named after her. For over 150 years, the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa have been a cornerstone of health care in Ottawa. Elisabeth Bruyère is credited with being the foundress of the associated Bruyère Foundation charitable organization. [2]
Dec 5, 2018 · The original buildings completed between 1847-49 were located between Cathcart Street and Bolton Street (now Bruyère Street). It was here that Bruyère and the Sisters worked tirelessly to save lives during the typhus outbreak in 1847. Bruyère and Sisters helping the sick [Painting by Ross]
- Élisabeth’S First Years
- A New Step
- Foundress in Bytown
- Canonical Erection of The Community
- Educational Ministry
- Ministries
- Death of Mother Bruyère
Élisabeth Bruyère was born on March 19, 1818, in the village of L’Assomption, just a few kilometers from Montreal. Her father already had four children at the time of his marriage to a young woman from Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. Three children were born from this marriage, one of whom was Élisabeth, the eldest of the second marriage. At the young age ...
In 1839, Élisabeth entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, founded by Mother Marguerite d’Youville, and made her first profession on May 31, 1841, at the age of twenty-three. At this time, the Superior General, Mother McMullen, had been asked to establish a community in Bytown (known today as Ottawa). Father Telmon, OMI, cou...
To carry out this mission on February 20, 1845, Sister Élisabeth Bruyère, who had been professed only four years, was appointed. Taken by surprise by this nomination, she confided: "If I accept, it is to be of service to my community […] but I do not feel any calling. If my superiors do not find any good reasons to refuse, I leave the decision up t...
In 1854, His Excellency Bishop Phelan, Bishop of Kingston, took advantage of his pastoral visit to establish an understanding with Father Telmon and Mother Bruyère related to the steps to be followed to ensure the canonical erection of the small community of Grey Nuns. Inspired by Mother d’Youville’s charism, Mother Bruyère and her Sisters intended...
The education ministry was the most urgent. Mother Bruyère had been well prepared for the designs of Providence. However, a clause restricted their teaching activities to "small schools". Mother Bruyère appealed to her superiors and to Bishop Bourget to broaden the scope of this clause. Mother Bruyère continued to direct her community toward the va...
Bytown was pleased to welcome the benefits of education. The boarding school was not detrimental neither to the work of the parochial schools nor to the ministry with the poor and the destitute nor with the orphans. Mother Bruyère generously opened her heart to the elderly and to the disabled. The care of the sick was not neglected either. To tell ...
Mother Bruyère gave the very best of herself. In June 1875, hypertrophy of the heart was diagnosed. Our venerated foundress entered into the eternal rest of the Father on April 5, 1876, at the age of fifty-eight. The Congregation, which she directed for thirty-one years had, by then, ninety-eight members. Her last words, "my beloved Jesus", conveye...
Elisabeth Bruyère 1818-1876; Elisabeth Bruyère 1818-1876. In the 1840s, Bytown (Ottawa) was a growing timber-trade village with a substantial French-Canadian population but no Catholic schools and few social services. In February of 1845 the Sisters of Charity of Montreal (Grey Nuns) sent four nuns here.
Aug 9, 2019 · The Mother House of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa, located at the corner of Sussex Drive and Bruyère Street, is considered to be one the oldest buildings in Ottawa's Lower Town. In 1995, the Congregation inaugurated a historical site which preserves the precious memorabilia gathered since the arrival of the Sisters in Bytown in 1845.
Dec 5, 2018 · The original buildings completed between 1847-49 were located between Cathcart Street and Bolton Street (now Bruyère Street). It was here that Bruyère and the Sisters worked tirelessly to save lives during the typhus outbreak in 1847. Bruyère and Sisters helping the sick [Painting by Ross]
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Oct 27, 2024 · Led by Élisabeth Bruyère, a devout well-educated young woman, the sisters quickly established a bilingual school for girls, a hospital and an orphanage. They helped the poor, the elderly and the sick including hundreds of immigrants stricken during the typhus epidemic of 1847-48. By the time of Élisabeth Bruyère’s death the Sisters of ...
