Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum

In Old Montreal beside the Saint Lawrence River, the Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum and the connected Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel bring together biography, religion, archaeology, and the city’s early history. Opened in 1998, the museum centers on Marguerite Bourgeoys, remembered as Montreal’s first teacher and the founder of the chapel in 1675, while preserving art, sacred objects, books, school artifacts, and archaeological finds linked to the chapel and the Congrégation de Notre-Dame. Beneath the chapel, excavations uncovered the foundations of Montreal’s first stone chapel and very old First Nations remains, making the site a meeting place of several layers of the city’s past. It also remains a living place of worship and pilgrimage.

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