Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions

Rosa Bruno-Jofré is a professor in the Faculty of Education cross-appointed to the Department of History at Queen's University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Coming to Life at the Intersection of Ultramontanism and Colonialism Part One. Contextualizing the Vision of the Foundress1. Who Were the RNDMs? Arrival in Canada (1898) and Transnational Ethos2. Foundational Thoughts on Education and the Interplay of Locality, Congregational Structure, and Church Teachings Part Two. Educational Apostolate in Time and Space: The Schools in Canada3. Manitoba in the Early Years: Building a French-Canadian Identity with the RNDM Foundations4. English-Speaking Communities, Immigrants, and the Quest for Social Recognition in Manitoba5. The RNDM in Saskatchewan: Residential, Parish, Separate, and Private Schools for Girls6. The Dusty Years to the Post-War Years7. The Church and the Classroom before Vatican II: Spirituality in the Schools and Recruitment 8. The 1960s: Changing Context and New ExperiencesPart Three. The Reception of Vatican II: Epistemic Shifts and Visionary Changes9. The Setting That Framed the Reception of Vatican II10. Resignifying Vision and Mission: The 1990s and 2000s, and the Movement towards Eco-SpiritualityPart Four. The Province Engages in a Foreign Mission11. The Mission in Peru Conclusion: Coming Full Circle Appendix A. Making Sense of Memories: Conversation among Former Provincials – A Literal TranscriptionAppendix B. Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions (RNDM) Sisters’ Houses in CanadaNotes Index

"This well-written and researched institutional history presents a solid academic view of a woman religious teaching community from its nineteenth century conservative roots to its renewal since the Second Vatican Council."- M.C. Havey (Historical Studies in Education, Vol. 33, No. 1) "The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions is a landmark work that captures the complexity of the transnational and transtemporal development of an educational institution between 1898 and 2008."- Maria Patricia Williams, ICHRE, UCL Institute of Education (Paedagogica Historica)