====== McDonell, Teresa ====== 
 (9 Feb. 1833 or 1835-4 Nov. 1917), nun. (known in religion as Sister Sainte-Thérèse) Born at St. Andrew’s, Ont. Parents: Angus McDonell and his wife Margaret McDonald. She was educated at the Ottawa (Bytown) convent of the Sisters of Charity. She herself took her vows at Bytown as a member of the Sisters of Charity on 19 March 1853. She was sent to St. Boniface, Manitoba, in Oct. 1855, to assist the Grey Nuns, that is, Sisters of Charity, there. The assignment was originally temporary, but in fact, she spent the remaining 62 years of her life in the Red River area, where she laboured with distinction as a nurse, teacher, organizer and administrator. She died at St. Boniface. Her father is said to have rejected her for life when she decided to be a nun. She was well regarded by Louis Riel and his father. She was not a Glengarrian, but given her Stormont County birth, we must assume that she had many GC relatives, and she must, in her time, have been known to many of the Glengarrians living in the Winnipeg area. Indeed, we must guess that she would have been known, by name at least, to the Presbyterian minister and author, the Rev. C. W. Gordon (“Ralph Connor”) of Winnipeg.


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<fs small>Life by Geneviève Rocan, //Dictionary of Canadian Biography//, XIV, 694-695 * Grey Nuns: Hurtig, II, 939
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