En route to Canada   The crossing   Departure for Sainte-Adélaïde de Pabos 
 A Letter Instead of a Trip   Letter From Mother Marie-Fidèle   School opening 
Second  Departure to Canada   Arrival of the Second Group   Stay at Halifax   A trip to Rimouski 
  Letter March 26, 1903     1897, A difficult end of year    October 9, 1897   On the way to England 
  Arrival in Minehead    A decisive meeting   Seeking Answers to Puzzling Questions
 Sr. Marie de Jésus, delegate of Mother Marie Fidèle   From on attempt to the next  New attempts
Endeavors of Mgr. F.-X. Bossé   Unusual offers   Mgr L-N Bégin Accepts the SCSL
The North American Branch Takes Root

Two months after the acceptance of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Louis 
by Mgr Louis-Nazaire Bégin, archbishop of Quebec,
a group of 17 sisters arrived in Quebec on October 22, 1903 on the S.S. Canada 
and another group, of 7 sisters, on December 14, 1903.  A promising start.  

Arrival of the 3^rd group

on the S.S. Canada

October 22, 1903.

Excerpt from Mother Marie-Fidèle’s letter to the 31 Sisters in Canada.  

… Jesus has done everything well; he passed through this life doing good to everybody!  May the new people to whom you were sent be able to say about each  one of you one day: « She passed among us doing good. »  May this be your unique ambition,  my dear daughters; everything else is vanity. *

Sister Marie-Fidèle. 
*Biography of Reverend Mother Marie Fidèle
Rome, 1987, p. 215

“She passed among us doing good” 
was the wish Mother Marie-Fidèle expressed in January 1904 
to the 31 French Sisters who had disembarked in North America 
since November 7, 1902. 

It has remained actual for the hundred other sisters who accepted to 
”cross over to the other shore” at the beginning of the 20^th century. 
These devoted educators, came to continue the work of their Foundress, 
Venerable Mother Saint-Louis, and to assure the expansion of 
their Congregation in North America.

   
 This is the tenth and last episode
of the series on how the 
Sisters of Charity of Saint Louis
finally found a safe haven
in North America.

SCSL au Québec