biography
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Joseph, Mother
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originally Esther Pariseau
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| female
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| (1823–1902)
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| biography:
| Nun, architect, and pioneer, born in St Elzear, Quebec, Canada. She joined the Sisters of Charity of Providence (1843) and was sent to Vancouver, Canada (1856). She had learned carpentry from her father, who was a carriage-maker, and became an all-purpose architect in the creation of 11 hospitals, seven academies, five Indian schools, and two orphanages. She travelled throughout the Rocky Mts into the USA and conducted ‘begging tours’ to raise money from miners. Long after her death, she was called the ‘first architect of the American Northwest’. The state of Washington placed her statue in the US Capitol. |
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