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SHANNON, MARY ANN AGNES (1853-1941)

SHANNON, MARY ANN AGNES, Sister St Dunstan of the Congregation of Notre Dame; teacher, and superior at Newcastle, 1908-17; b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 12 Jan 1853, d/o James Shannon and Theresa Bridget Davany, immigrants from Ireland; entered religious life, 1871; d. Montreal, 12 Jan 1941.

Mary Ann Shannon's parents moved to Montreal soon after her birth and died there while she was still a child. Relatives arranged for her to be educated at the Congregation of Notre Dame school at Williamstown, Ont., and she entered the novitiate in Montreal at age eighteen. After she pronounced her vows she had a series of shorter teaching assignments in Quebec and Ontario and served as assistant mistress of novices at the mother house. In 1902 she was appointed assistant superior at Charlottetown, and she was sent from there to Newcastle as superior in 1908.

Under Shannon's direction, St Mary's Academy had "a most successful era." Her main innovation was a commercial program which became one of the most popular options in the curriculum. She also took a keen interest in the beautification of the building and grounds. She left in 1917 to become provincial superior of the CND for Ontario and the United States. She was later in charge of convents in Vermont and Connecticut. She retired to the mother house in 1935 and died there in 1941, on her eighty-eighth birthday.

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[b/d] CND archives / Advocate 21 Jun 1917


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