1818-1876+Elisabeth+Bruyere

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=__**Elisabeth Bruyere**__=

Elisabeth Bruyere was the founder of the Sisters of Charity of Bytown(present day Ottawa) and opened the first hospital there and the first bilingual school in Ontario.

=__Montreal__= - Bruyere was a protestant nun for the sisters of charity Montreal

=__**Sisters of Charity of Bytown**__= -Bruyere and three other nuns arrived in Bytown in 1845 -She quickly established a bilingual school for girls a hospital and orphanage -They helped the poor, elderly, and the sick including hundreds of emigrants of all religious demonation stricken by the typhus epidemic of 1847-1848 -Opened the Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1950 -Sisters of Charity were responsible from 1870-2001 for the school Collège Saint-Joseph de Hull in Gatineau -Founded key institutions and extended their service to sixteen other locations in Canada and United States -Helped change Canada into a bilingual country -influenced other schools to teach both english and french