Description

In 1871, an invitation to assist in the orphanage in St. Agatha, Ontario brought the School Sisters of Notre Dame to Canada.  The number of Canadian missions grew. By 1927, the SSND ministry in Canada had spread into the West where they opened a boarding school in Leipzig, Saskatchewan. 

The number of women seeking admission to the congregation also grew. As a result, in 1927, the Canadian Motherhouse was built in Waterdown, Ontario, and the Canadian Province became an administrative unit of the congregation on Feb. 14, 1927.