Early Life
The name given to the woman we now know as Mother Joseph
Who is Esther Pariseau
The city where the Sisters of Providence religious community was founded.
What is Montreal, Canada.
This was the first permanent school in the Pacific Northwest, founded in Vancouver as a day school, boarding school, and orphanage.
What is Providence Academy (1857)
In this ministry over the next 25 years, she traveled thousands of miles by these transportation methods to establish additional schools and hospitals and beg for the funds to support them.
What are horseback, steamer, stagecoach, and rail
Mother Joseph was many things to different people: intense, resourceful, prayerful, strong willed, artistic, demanding. But to these who came under her care she was an unfailingly tender and protective mother. Throughout her life, these “abandoned little ones” claimed her first and best affection.
Who are the orphan children?
April 16 is the date that we chose to honor Mother Joseph as a Washington State holiday. The significance of this date.
What is her birthday?
Mother Joseph was asked to lead a group of 4 women to this territory.
What is the Washington Territory?
This was the first permanent hospital in the Northwest, founded in Vancouver (now Southwest Washington Medical Center).
What is St. Joseph's Hospital? (1858)
Popular stories about Mother Joseph on the construction sites abound, painting a vivid image of this spirited and gifted woman. One can well imagine her bouncing on wooden beams to test this.
What is strength?
Mother Joseph purchased this to provide fresh produce for the children and as a place for the boys to work and learn useful skills.
What is a farm at the banks of the Columbia River?
The age at which Esther Pariseau went to boarding school.
What is 17?
The religious women of Montreal, Canada, traveled by this transportation method to Fort Vancouver, WA.
What is a boat?
This was the year that the Sisters extend their ministry in Washington Territory beyond Vancouver with the foundation of St. Joseph School in Steilacoom, then a burgeoning port town on Puget Sound.
What is 1863?
Popular stories about Mother Joseph on the construction sites abound, painting a vivid image of this spirited and gifted woman. One can well imagine her climbing up to inspect this.
What is a roof?
Mother Joseph’s contributions to education, health care, and the social services continue to be recognized a century after her death. In 1980, she was named this in National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C.
What is Washington State’s second representative?
The age at which Esther Pariseau entered the convent.
What is 20?
Mother Joseph's native language was this.
What is French?
This was the school founded in Walla Walla, taking the Providence ministry into the interior of the Washington Territory.
What is St. Vincent Academy? (1864)
Popular stories about Mother Joseph on the construction sites abound, painting a vivid image of this spirited and gifted woman. One can well imagine her working late into the night to rebuild this.
What is a chimney?
in 1999, at the request of a group of Vancouver sixth-grade students, the legislature passed a bill declaring her birthday, April 16, as this day in Washington State.
What is Mother Joseph Day?
What is Sister Joseph?
This was the first mission of the sisters in the Washington Territory.
What is a school?
Sister Mary of the Infant Jesus and three sisters travel to here to teach the native children. From St. Ignatius, the Providence ministry expands throughout present-day western Montana and northern Idaho.
What is St. Ignatius, Montana Territory (1864)
Her finest building still stands as a testament to her aesthetic vision and workmanship.
What is Providence Academy in Vancouver, built in 1873?
The corporation Mother Joseph established in 1859 is acknowledged as a “Pioneer Corporation in Washington State,” and the vibrant health care network she created remains largely in place today. Under the sponsorship of the Sisters of Providence in the western states—now known as this - serving Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska and Montana, continues the caring traditions established by the intrepid pioneer sister and her colleagues 150 years ago.
What is Mother Joseph Province—Providence Health and Services? or Providence St. Joseph Health?