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The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul ended their sixty years of service in our school and parish at the end of June 1982.
The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul ended their sixty years of service in our school and parish at the end of June 1982.

At the beginning of September 1982, the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence began their ministry in the school by assigning a Sister to assist in the Kindergarten class. Currently, there are 234 pupils from Kindergarten to Grade Seven inclusive, the equivalent of ten full-time teachers and a lay principal.…Read More

1962 Baseball Team
1962 Baseball Team

The staff at OLS was delighted to see this picture of the OLS baseball team!   Many thanks to R. Van Eslande, and R. Studnicki for making this picture available!

First Student Body 1926
First Student Body 1926

These are the first students to attend Our Lady of Sorrows School.  Note the old Canadian flag!!

The beginning
The beginning

The school was solemnly blessed by His Grace Archbishop Timothy Casey on August 29th, 1926 and the school opened on September 7th of the same year with 92 students. In 1963 there were 385 children enrolled. The Sisters of Charity of Halifax educated generations of children in Our Lady of…Read More