Sister Alma Grégoire-Colin, s.g.m. (1885-1970)
Born into a farming family in the village of Saint-Esprit (in the Lanaudière region north of Montréal), Sister Alma is immersed from the beginning in the world of agriculture. Entering the Grey Nuns’ novitiate in 1904, she begins her apostolic life as a caregiver and educator at the Saint-Joseph Hospice in Chambly (1906 to 1915), and then works for over fifty years on the farms of Saint-Charles (Côte-de-Liesse) and of Châteauguay.
“Sister Colin is adept in all trades! She knows the workings of the laundry and the dairy, makes soap, repairs clocks, oversees the flowers and vegetables in the gardens, sows, harvests, works like a young person at the annual apple harvest, assists those in authority as a local councillor and when she became a superior herself, she governed with peace and charity.”
Biographical excerpt – Sister Rose-Alma Grégoire-Colin, s.g.m. Transcription.
Archives of The Grey Nuns of Montréal, Personal file
Sister Alma Grégoire-Colin, s.g.m., [19-]. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Personal file of Sister Alma Grégoire-Colin