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About Marie-Louise Valade
- Marie-Louise Valade (December 26, 1808 – May 13, 1861) was a Canadian Catholic nun.
- She founded the Sisters of Charity at the Red River Mission and served as superior.The daughter of François Valade, a farmer, and Marie-Charlotte Cadotte, she was born in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Lower Canada.
- She entered the Hôpital Général of Montreal in 1826 and took her vows two years later.
- Valade was named an administrator for the hospital in 1838 and was elected depositary (financial manager) in 1943.
- Later that year, she was assigned the task of establishing a convent at the Red River Colony.
- She arrived at Saint-Boniface in June the following year.
- Valade returned to Montreal in 1849 to recruit more nuns.
- In 1851, a school in Saint-François-Xavier was opened.
- In the same year, the council of bishops of Quebec decided that groups of nuns in each diocese would form their own separate community.
- Because the nuns in the west were not able to recruit new members from the area, Valade lobbied successfully for the re-union of the Red River community with the Montreal community.
- New schools were established in St.
- Norbert and St.
- Vital.
- The nuns also set up an orphanage and provided nursing services.She died in St.
- Boniface of cancer at the age of 52.
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