The Jeanne Mance Monument is a

memorial A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or works of a ...

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...

, erected in 1909. It portrays French nurse

Jeanne Mance Jeanne Mance (November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospit ...

, an early settler of Quebec and one of the founders of Montreal's first hospital,

Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal The Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (founded in 1645) was the first hospital established in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ''Hôtel-Dieu'', literally translated in English as ''Hotel of God'', is an archaic French term for hospital, referring to the origi ...

, in 1645.

Overview

The monument by

Louis-Philippe Hébert Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850–1917) was a Canadian sculptor. He is considered one of the best sculptors of his generation. Career Hébert was the son of Théophile Hébert, a farmer, and Julie Bourgeois of Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Quebec. At ag ...

portrays

comforting an injured colonist. The monument to Jeanne Mance was unveiled on September 2, 1909, in front of the

. In 1909 was celebrated the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the first three hospital sisters (1659). In 1642, she came specifically to establish Montreal's first hospital, Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal. The hospital operated at different location during the

New France New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spai ...

and moved to present location in 1861.

Gallery

Image:JeanneManceHotelDieu.jpg,

's statue of

at Hotel Dieu hospital (Montreal) Image:Hotel-Dieu de Montreal 16-MARCH-2006.JPG,

References

* Alan Gordon, Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891–1930. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, p.135. 1909 in Canada 1909 sculptures Bronze sculptures in Quebec Granite sculptures in Canada History of Montreal Monuments and memorials in Montreal Outdoor sculptures in Montreal Sculptures of men in Quebec Sculptures of women in Quebec Statues in Quebec Cultural depictions of Canadian people Cultural depictions of nurses Sculptures by Louis-Philippe Hébert {{Canada-sculpture-stub