- Ecole des Ursulines, Quebec
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Ecole des Ursulines Address 4, rue du Parloir
Quebec City, Quebec, CanadaInformation Principal Serge Goyette School type Primary Established 1639 Homepage http://www.ursulinesquebec.com/francais/quebec/ The Ecole des Ursulines, known in English as the School of the Ursulines, is among North America's oldest schools. Still operating as a private girls school, it was founded in 1639 by French nun Marie de l'Incarnation and laywoman Marie-Madeline de Chauvigny de la Peltrie. This was also the beginning of the Ursuline order in New France.
The convent has many of its original walls intact and houses a little chapel and a museum. Located in the middle of the historical district of Quebec City, which is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage District. The school has two campuses. In the Quebec City campus, there are more than four hundred girls enrolled from pre-school through primary school (5 to 12 years). There is also a coeducational campus in Loretteville.
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Categories:- Elementary schools in Quebec
- Schools in Quebec City
- History of Quebec City
- History of Catholicism in Quebec
- 1639 establishments
- Roman Catholic schools in Quebec
- Girls' schools in Canada
- Ursuline Sisters
- New France
- Educational institutions established in the 1630s
- Roman Catholic elementary schools in Canada
- French Colonial architecture in Canada
- Quebec school stubs
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