Pillar
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| Object Name: | Pillar |
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| Object Type: | Stone |
| Category: | Category 10: Unclassifiable Objects |
| Discipline: | Local History |
| Material: | stone, (?) |
| Technique: | molded, machine |
| Accession Number: | SM 1978.171 |
| Origin-Province: | New Brunswick |
| Origin-Country: | Canada |
| Use-Province: | New Brunswick |
| Use-Country: | Canada |
| Culture: | Canadian |
| Description: | The large stone pillars each have a circular tiered stone base. Cylindrical pillars sit atop the base and approximately one quarter distance from top of cylinder is a large stone node followed by a smaller node circling the circumference of cylinder. |
| Narrative: | The pillars were constructed in 1902 and removed when that section of the building was demolished in 1975.Mount Saint Joseph Nursing Home is sponsored and guided by Catholic Health International. It was founded the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, a congregation of religious women founded by Jerome le Royer de la Dauversiere in 1636 in Le Fleche France. A married civil servant with 5 children, he wanted to provide health care to both settlers and natives, specifically in New France, now known as Canada. It was not until 1659 with the help of Jeanne Manse, the 1st lay nurse of North America that the Religious Hospitallers arrived in Montreal. Jeanne had already established a hospital in 1642 with Maisonneuve, the governor of New France. On July 16, 1869, five RHSJs from Hotel Dieu of Montreal disembarked at Chatham, N.B., where at the request of Bishop Rogers, they had accepted to take care of the sick, to open a boarding school for young girls and an orphanage. Mount Saint Joseph Nursing Home is sponsored and guided by Catholic Health International. It was founded the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, a congregation of religious women founded by Jerome le Royer de la Dauversiere in 1636 in Le Fleche France. A married civil servant with 5 children, he wanted to provide health care to both settlers and natives, specifically in New France, now known as Canada. It was not until 1659 with the help of Jeanne Manse, the 1st lay nurse of North America that the Religious Hospitallers arrived in Montreal. Jeanne had already established a hospital in 1642 with Maisonneuve, the governor of New France. On July 16, 1869, five RHSJs from Hotel Dieu of Montreal disembarked at Chatham, N.B., where at the request of Bishop Rogers, they had accepted to take care of the sick, to open a boarding school for young girls and an orphanage. |
| History of Use: | The pillars stood on each side of main entrance of Mount St. Joseph Nursing Home in Miramichi, NB. |
| Height: | 165 cm |
| Credit Line - Image: | For copyright contact St. Michael's Museum. |
| Institution: | St. Michael's Museum & Genealogical Centre |
| Institution City: | Miramichi |
| Institution Province: | New Brunswick |