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En effet, mère Saint-Paul est approchée, dès 1904, pour prendre la responsabilité d'une école ménagère à Saint-Pascal, dans la région de Kamouraska, où la congrégation tient une école. Toutefois, faute de personnel compétent, elle doit décliner la responsabilité, compte tenu de l'expertise de la Congrégation de Notre-Dame.
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The Canadian province had been started in 1892 in Saint-Éphrem-de-Tring, in the Beauce region of Quebec, at the request of the curé, Léon-Maxime Morisset, who wanted a congregation that could teach both boys and girls. The new provincial decided, however, to establish the provincialate in the congregation's house in Limoilou, in the environs of Quebec City, which was a better location. When Mother Saint-Paul arrived, the congregation had three boarding schools that were unusual in including both boys and girls, and five mixed day schools. The instruction they provided was, for the most part, at the elementary level. The arrival of the new contingent in 1903 made it possible to open five more schools. Although the provincial regretted the misfortunes that "afflict poor France," she added, in a letter to the superior general, "Providence is giving us . . . the opportunity to establish ourselves in Canada, to make us take our place among the best congregations in the country." Indeed, Mother Saint-Paul was approached in 1904 to take on responsibility for a school of home economics in Saint-Pascal, in the Kamouraska region, where the congregation was operating a school. However, because she lacked qualified staff, and recognized the competencies of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, she had to decline the responsibility.
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