Eliza Healy (1846–1919), educated in Saint-Jean, Quebec, joined her family in Boston and lived there for several years. Feeling a calling to the religious life, she returned to Montreal, where she entered the novitiate in the Congregation of Notre Dame in 1874 and took her vows that year.Henry Louis Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, "James Augustine Healy", African American Lives, Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 385; accessed February 8, 2011 They were the teaching order of her school and had been established in 1653 by a French nun. After teaching in schools in Quebec and Ontario, Sister Mary Magdalen, as she was known, was first named as superior of a convent in 1895 in Huntingdon, Quebec, where she served until 1897.
