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Mount Saint Vincent Academy

  • AR-054
  • Collectivité
  • 1873-1972

In 1873, the Sisters of Charity purchased land along the Bedford Basin in Rockingham and facilitated the construction of a new building, moving from their previous location at Saint Mary’s Convent on Barrington Street. In August of that same year, the new building was formally blessed by Archbishop Connolly and named Mount Saint Vincent. It housed the motherhouse and novitiate which also served as a normal school (a teacher-training school), marking the beginning of Mount Saint Vincent Academy.

In 1874, the sisters advertised for students at their all-girls academy. Tuition and board cost $120 per year, and students would receive religious training as well as an education in music, art, and deportment. Non-Catholic students were also welcome to apply. Sixteen students were enrolled in that first year.

The Academy’s curriculum was based on course standards from the Nova Scotia school system and taught grades 5 to 12. Courses included cultural subjects, dramatics, music, and painting. The lower grades were eventually phased out and in the later years of its operation, the Academy only taught grades 11 and 12.

In 1914, Mount Saint Vincent Academy began teaching college courses. Through an affiliation with Dalhousie University, the first two years of a liberal arts college degree were taught at Mount Saint Vincent, and the final two years were taught by Dalhousie professors. This initiative had been considered for some time, as by 1909 college degrees were required to obtain higher level teaching certificates. The agreement was formalized by Dalhousie Senate and the Sisters of Charity in 1916, and five courses were taught by Dalhousie professors who travelled to the Mount to deliver their lectures. The Dalhousie-Mount affiliation continued until 1941.

Mount Saint Vincent Academy burned down in a fire in 1951, eventually reopening in a new building in 1958. It remained there until 1972. By this time public schools had become more accessible, lowering need for private institutions. Due to the high costs of maintenance and lower demand, the Academy was closed in 1972 and the building was repurposed as a residence for 180 MSVU students.

Dulhanty, Mary

  • AR-026
  • Personne
  • 1909-1999

Mary Dulhanty was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia in 1909, the daughter of Richard and Hannah Dulhanty. She moved with her family to Bridgewater in 1912. Her father died in 1923. Mary had two sisters, Jane (b. 1900) and Margaret (b. 1903), and a brother Frank (b. 1906). Mary graduated from Mount Saint Vincent in June 1927, and emigrated with her mother to New York in 1929. She married William Swift on 11 June 1932, and was divorced in 1936, reconciled, then divorced again in 1938. She followed her sister Jane from California then to Hawaii where she worked for a general contractor. Mary was in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed by the Japanese in 1941. Shortly after she married Alexander Kirkland McKendrick (1916-1968), and they had two children, Mary Elizabeth, called Beth (b. 1942) and James (Jim, b. 1944) and the family spent most of their time in Belmont, California. Mary died 29 April 1999.

McGowan, Catherine Sarah

  • AR-023
  • Personne
  • 1939-1948 (Creation)

Catherine Sarah McGowan, daughter of J.W. McGowan, attended Mount Saint Vincent Academy and was later a student at Mount Saint Vincent College, Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1940's. In the summer of 1946 she was given the opportunity to work as a junior dietician in the Convalescent Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. In 1948 McGowan graduated from Mount Saint Vincent College with a Bachelor of Science. In 1949 McGowan was employed at the Department of Agriculture doing demonstration work in foods. Catherine later joined the Sisters of Charity and took the name Sister Catherine Joseph Marie. By 1997 Sr. Catherine was running daycare centres--the Jardin de los Ninos, and Centre Elisabeth Seton, and continues to work in the Dominican Republic.

Sister Lua Gavin

  • AR-029
  • Personne

Lua Gavin entered as a postulant to the Sisters of Charity at the age of 16. Sister Lua Gavin taught biology at Mount Saint Vincent College and University in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She was also involved with the Alumnae Association. She retired as chairman of the Biology Department in 1979, and in 1982 went to St. Brigid's assisted living in Quebec City, Quebec as a coordinator. Sister Martina Marie was her sister, also in the Mount Saint Vincent community.

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