1606-1673+Jeanne+Mance

Jeanne Mance


 * Was a French settler of New France.
 * She was one of the founders of Montreal. who secured its survival and was the founder and head of the Hotel-Dieu de Montreal.
 * Founded the new city on May 17, 1642 on land granted by the Governor.
 * That same year Jeanne Mance began operating a hospital in her home.
 * With a donation of 6000 francs by Angelique Bullion, she opened a hospital on Rue Saint-Paul. The hospital stood for fifty years and was in her care for the first seventeen of those years.
 * Mance made a second trip to France in 1657 to recruit assistance for the hospital.
 * On her return to Montreal, she found that the attacks of the Iroquois threatened the colony and lent the hospital money to M. de Maisonneuve who returned to France to organize a force of one hundred men for the colony's defense.

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