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The StudentsThe first registered day student was Helene Lavoie aged 10, and Emilie Morel (Leon Morel’s daughter) age 6 was the first full time boarding student. A number of the early students boarded or were orphans; perhaps it was these growing numbers that caused Sister Mary Providence to seek new quarters for the school immediately upon her arrival in 1859. In that year, there were seven boarders and three orphans; by 1863 this had increased to 36 boarders and 26 orphans. New premises were a dire necessity. Among the first students were the children of several Hudson’s Bay Company fur traders, including James Yates’ two daughters, Emma and Henrietta, and three of James Douglas’ daughters, Agnes, Alice and Martha. The company’s officers were conscientious in helping the Sisters with providing funds to meet their temporal needs (such as food and repairs to the schoolhouse), and they paid well for their daughters’ educations. Even so, differences did arise and James Douglas removed his daughters from the school when the Sisters opposed their accompanying him to a ball that he considered an official obligation. (For the Sisters, such an outing contradicted accepted customs for Canadian convent girls and it was decided the established standard of conduct must be upheld.) |
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Students at the first schoolhouse about 1864. Courtesy Sisters of St Ann Archives |
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Summer class at St. Ann's 1888. BC Archives D-2214. |
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New educational offerings and buildings kept the school current. Graduates of the Stenographers and Bookeeping Class, 1904. BC Archives A-7815 |
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Students seated in St. Ann's in Victoria about 1910. BC Archives A-7756 |
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