Jeanne-Mance (provincial electoral district)

Jeanne-Mance was a former provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada.

It corresponded to part of the Saint-Léonard neighbourhood in Montreal.

It was created for the 1966 election from parts of Montréal–Jeanne-Mance electoral district. Its final election was in 1998. It disappeared in the 2003 election, as nearly all of its territory and a part of Viger electoral district were merged to become the Jeanne-Mance–Viger electoral district.

It was named in honour of French settler Jeanne Mance.

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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, Canada, in 1642, she established its first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645. She returned twice to France to seek financial support for the hospital. After providing most of the care directly for years, in 1657 she recruited three sisters of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, and continued to direct operations of the hospital.

Origins

Jeanne Mance was born into a bourgeois family in Langres, in Haute-Marne, France. She was the daughter of Catherine Émonot and Charles Mance, a prosecutor for the king in Langres, an important diocese in the northern Burgundy. After her mother died prematurely, Jeanne cared for eleven brothers and sisters. She went on to care for victims of the Thirty Years War and the plague.

Vocation

At age 34, while on a pilgrimage to Troyes in Champagne, Mance discovered her missionary calling. She decided to go to New France in North America, then in the first stages of colonization by the French. She was supported by Anne of Austria, the wife of King Louis XIII, and by the Jesuits.

Mance

Mance is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-western France.

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Mance (surname)

Mance is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: