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greatest part of the members are employed ; 

 boarders are taken into the house on very mo- 

 derate pensions, and receive a careful educa- 

 tion. From this estabUshment some of the 

 listers are sent as missionaries to different parts 

 of the district, for the purpose of giving fuller 

 effect to the intentions of the foundation by 

 opening schools in parishes remote from the 

 convent. The general hospital, or convent of 

 the Grey Sisters, situated about 300 yards 

 south-west of Point Calliere, was founded in 

 1750, by Madame de Youville, as a refuge for 

 the infirm poor and invalids ; it occupies a 

 space of 678 feet along the little river St. Pierre 

 by nearly the same depth, containing a convent 

 for the residence of the nuns, a church, wards 

 for patients of both sexes, all requisite offices, 

 and a detached building for the reception of 

 such as labour under mental derangement. It 

 is governed by a superior (M^^^- Therese Coutlee) 

 and 24 sisters : the cares which they bestow 

 upon those whom misfortune obliges to seek 

 their^aid, are directed with great kindness and 

 an unremitting zeal in earnest endeavours to 

 alleviate the burthen of human misery. The 

 cathedral church in Notre Dame-street is plain 

 and substantially built, 144 feet long by 94 

 wide; but its height is not in due proportion 

 to its other dimensions : it is, however, in every 



