The Sisters of the Presentation of Mary is a Catholic religious congregation that performs charitable work and spreads Catholicism. Founded on November 21, 1796 in France by Marie Rivier, who was crippled during her youth but was able to walk again after four years of prayer to a statue of the Virgin Mary, in order to devote the remainder of her life to the galvanization and education of the poor. After her death, the Sisters established missions in the Diocese of Saint Hyacinthe in Quebec. Due to the secularization of France, these missions were further bolstered by recruits from France and in 1903, ten Sisters were sent to the Duck Lake Mission in Saskatchewan to replace the Fidéles Compagnes de Jésus. The Sisters worked at St. Michael’s Residential School from 1903 to 1968 as teachers. After the Sisters were named as one of the Catholic entities in the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement (IRSSA), they worked with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada to provide relevant documents for their role in the Residential School System.
1903-2013