DALTON, MARY CECILIA (1867-1941)

DALTON, MARY CECILIA, Sister St Clarence of the Congregation of Notre Dame; teacher, and superior at Newcastle, 1917-23; b. Barnaby River, 26 Oct 1867, d/o Thomas Dalton and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick; entered religious life, 1885; d. Montreal, 5 Jul 1941.

Mary Cecilia Dalton attended the convent school of the Congregation of Notre Dame at St Louis de Kent and entered the novitiate in Montreal at age eighteen. Like most other members of the CND she was a teacher: at Joliette, Que., Mabou and Port Hood, N.S., and Tignish, P.E.I., where she taught for twenty-four years.

In 1917 Dalton was appointed superior of the convent at Newcastle. She held the position until 1923, when she was transferred to the CND school at St Albans, Vermont. She had later assignments in Providence, R.I., Brockville, Ont., and Montreal. She was a "born teacher" who adapted readily to different situations and was "happy everywhere." During the last three years of her life she was a resident of the mother house in Montreal.