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Mother Émilie Gamelin (1800-1851) founded the Order of the Sisters of Providence in Montreal, QC, in 1843. (The Catholic Church beatified Émilie Gamelin on 10/07/2001, elevating her the title to the "Blessed Émilie Gamelin.") Thirteen years later in 1856, five Sisters of Providence, led by Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart (1823-1902) left the main convent in Montreal and came to minister and proselytize American Indians in the Pacific Northwest. At Fort Vancouver, the nuns started the Providence Academy in 1857, a combined day school, boarding school, and orphanage, the first permanent school in the Washington Territory.

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