2020 INDUCTEE Venerable Jeanne Mance Women in Medicine, The Early Days - Health Care Pioneers, Patient Care, Leadership in Organizational Development

Jeanne Mance posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Virtual Ceremony (originally scheduled to be in Vancouver, BC)

Jeanne Mance was honoured with the title Bâtisseuse de la Cité (a builder of the city).

The following year, she was officially recognized as a founder of Montréal as was Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve.

The Canadian Nurses Association established the Jeanne Mance Award.

The award honours a Canadian nurse who has made significant and innovative contributions to the Health of Canadians.

Jeanne Mance died in Montréal.

She is buried in the crypt beneath the chapel of the hospital in the heart of the city she founded and served.

Jeanne Mance made her final trip to France in 1662, seeking to preserve L’Hôtel-Dieu in Montréal and the city itself through disruptive changes in administration.

She managed to navigate the complexities of political and religious power in a time of often dangerous, always uncertain, intrigue and ambition.

Jeanne Mance returned to Montréal with the first three nuns of the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph—Judith Moreau de Bresoles, Catherine Mace, and Marie Maillet.

Returning from mass along an icy street in the winter, Mance fell, breaking her right arm and dislocating her wrist.

The bone was set, but for a time, she lost the use of her arm. Despite the injury, she set sail for France on a recruitment mission for Montréal and the hospital, part of the trip carried in a stretcher.

Once the hospital was founded, Mance returned to France to secure more funds.

After surviving another exhausting months-long voyage, her efforts were met with success.

Jeanne Mance founded L’Hôtel-Dieu in what is now Montréal

The hospital consisted only of a room within the fort. Two years later, she had a small house built with room for six beds for men and two for women.

Although never a nun, Mance was convinced of her vocation to serve as a missionary in Nouvelle-France.

With the help of her powerful and wealthy patroness Mme. Angélique Faure de Bullion, Mance made the arduous three-month Atlantic crossing, first to Quebec, and then on to Montréal.

Only two years after the death of her father, Mance’s mother also passed away.

Mance became the main caregiver for her brothers and sisters, an early example of her willingness to assist all those around her.