Reference number: P41-16

Place : Tracadie
Date : c 1915

The Académie Sainte-Famille in Tracadie opened in 1912. The Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph nuns taught New Brunswick's official curricula in French and English and various other subjects, such as music, the arts, and religion. The academy housed more than 5,000 boarders in its day, some 600 of whom completed their secondary studies. The school was closed in 1967. On the right of the photo also seen here is the Hôtel-Dieu de Saint-Joseph, Tracadie's general hospital, which opened in 1897. It was the first Francophone hospital in the Maritimes and included the Tracadie Lazaretto, a leper-house that took in patients from all of Canada until it closed in 1965.