Canadian Pioneer, Nurse. Co-founder of the city of Montreal and founder of the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal. At age 34, Jeanne Mance was recruited by the Society of Our Lady of Montreal to voyage to New France (Canada). In addition to its goal of religious conversion of the native Canadians, the society wished to establish a hospital in Montreal. Mance left France and began her voyage to Canada in 1641. In 1642, she and Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve founded the city of Montreal. That year, Mance also ran a hospital out of her home. In 1645, she established the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal on the Rue Saint-Paul. (It was the second hospital in North America north of Mexico, the first being the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec.) She returned twice to France in the ensuing years, once in 1650 for money for her hospital, and the second time several years later to recruit three Hospital Sisters of Saint Joseph to assist her in Montreal. Jeanne Mance died in Montreal and was interred in the chapel of the Hôtel-Dieu on June 19, 1673 (although her burial record is found with those for the Basilique Nôtre-Dame de Montréal). After two centuries, the Hôtel-Dieu was transferred to the foot of Mount Royal in Montreal. The Archbishop of Montreal Paul Bruchési commissioned a bronze monument of Mance by sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert. This is displayed in front of the Hôtel-Dieu. There is also a statue of her at the Place d'Armes in Montreal which is part of the Maisonneuve Monument. In addition, a street and a public park bear her name.
Canadian Pioneer, Nurse. Co-founder of the city of Montreal and founder of the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal. At age 34, Jeanne Mance was recruited by the Society of Our Lady of Montreal to voyage to New France (Canada). In addition to its goal of religious conversion of the native Canadians, the society wished to establish a hospital in Montreal. Mance left France and began her voyage to Canada in 1641. In 1642, she and Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve founded the city of Montreal. That year, Mance also ran a hospital out of her home. In 1645, she established the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal on the Rue Saint-Paul. (It was the second hospital in North America north of Mexico, the first being the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec.) She returned twice to France in the ensuing years, once in 1650 for money for her hospital, and the second time several years later to recruit three Hospital Sisters of Saint Joseph to assist her in Montreal. Jeanne Mance died in Montreal and was interred in the chapel of the Hôtel-Dieu on June 19, 1673 (although her burial record is found with those for the Basilique Nôtre-Dame de Montréal). After two centuries, the Hôtel-Dieu was transferred to the foot of Mount Royal in Montreal. The Archbishop of Montreal Paul Bruchési commissioned a bronze monument of Mance by sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert. This is displayed in front of the Hôtel-Dieu. There is also a statue of her at the Place d'Armes in Montreal which is part of the Maisonneuve Monument. In addition, a street and a public park bear her name.
Bio by: Anne Philbrick
Gravesite Details
Her remains were transfered from the old cemetery to the chapel, according to placards and memorial mounted exterior to the main entrance.
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