Jeanne Mance
Jeanne Mance | |
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Nurse | |
Employer | Société Notre-Dame de Montréal |
Known for | Founding of Montreal Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal |
Parent(s) | Catherine Émonnot Charles Mance |
Jeanne Mance (November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French nurse and settler of
Origins
Jeanne Mance was born (as Jehanne Mance)
Vocation
At age 34, while on a
Mance was a member of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal; its goal was to convert the natives and found a hospital in Montreal similar to the one in Quebec.
Founding of Montreal and Hôtel-Dieu Hospital
Three years later (1645), with a donation of 6000 francs by
Later years
In 1650, Mance visited France, returning with 22,000 French
Mance made a second trip to France in 1657 to seek financial assistance for the hospital. At the same time, she secured three Hospital Sisters of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph from the convent of La Fleche in Anjou: Judith Moreau de Bresoles, Catherine Mace, and Marie Maillet. They had a difficult passage on the return, made worse by an outbreak of the plague on board, but all four women survived. While Mgr. de Laval tried to retain the sisters at Quebec for that hospital, they eventually reached Montreal in October 1659.
With the help of the new sisters, Mance was able to ensure the continued operations of the hospital. For the rest of her years, she lived more quietly.[4]
She died in 1673 and was buried in the church of the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital. While the church and her house were demolished in 1696 for redevelopment, her work was carried on by the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph. The three nuns whom she had recruited in 1659 served as hospital administrators. Two centuries later, in 1861, the hospital was moved to the foot of Mount Royal.[4]
Legacy
- A small statuette (2008) representing Jeanne Mance by André Gauthier was commissioned for the Canadian Nurses Association for a biannual award of nursing excellence.
- Rue Jeanne-Mance, a north–south street in Montreal, is named after Mance.
- Jeanne-Mance Park, situated on Park Avenue, opposite Mount Royal, and just south of Mount Royal Avenue, is named after Mance.
- Jeanne-Mance, a district of Plateau Mont-Royal
- Jeanne-Mance Building, situated on Eglantine Driveway, Tunneys Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A Federal Government of Canada Office Tower currently occupied by Health Canada.
- Jeanne Mance Hall is a dormitory on the campus of University of Vermont. It is situated across the street from the student health center.
- A statue (1968) was erected in the Square Olivier-Lahalle in her hometown of Langres by the Association Langres - Montréal.[5]
Gallery
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Testament, recto
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Testament, verso
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Her statue at Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
References
- ^ a b l’Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (1941). "Appendice: PROCÈS VERBAL DE CONSTAT". L'HOTEL'DIEU: premier hôpital de Montréal: 1642-1942 (in French). Joseph Charbonneau. p. 387.
C'est dans cette église paroissiale Saint Pierre et Saint Paul de Langres, comme l'indiquent les registres de naissance et de baptême de l'année 1606 actuellement conservés à l'Hôtel de Ville de Langres, que fut baptisée Jehanne Mance
- ^ Herbert J. Thurston, S.J. (1938). "MARGARET BOURGEOYS, Virgin, Foundress of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal". Butler's Lives of the Saints. Burns & Oates.
She housekept for the governor, looked after the few children, helped Joan Mance at the hospital and the wives of the garrison, got the great cross restored on Mount Royal
- ^ Buescher, John. "Religious Orders of Women in New France", Teaching history website, accessed August 21, 2011
- ^ a b c d Auclair, Elie-J. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
- ^ "Langres, ville natale de Jeanne Mance".
Further reading
- Joanna Emery, "Angel of the Colony," Beaver (Aug/Sep 2006) 86#4 pp 37–41. online
- Sister Elizabeth MacPherson. Jeanne Mance: The Woman, the Legend and the Glory (Bronson Agency, Toronto, 1985)
External links
- "Jeanne Mance". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
- Jeanne Mance(1606-1673): Nurse: First Lay Nurse in North America
- New International Encyclopedia. 1905. .