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April 23, 2015

The Grey Nuns played an integral role in Alberta’s Church

Grey Nuns Sisters Jeannine Coulombe, left, Marie Rose Hurtubise (sitting) and Dora Durand in front of a statue of their foundress, St. Marguerite d’Youville.

St. Albert, Alta. - It was in the fall of 1859 that the Grey Nuns arrived in Alberta, welcomed by Fr. Albert Lacombe at Lac Ste. Anne with ringing church bells and dancing First Nations people.

Published in Call to Service