Anne BOURDON

Born

28 August 1644 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

4 November 1711 , Québec Province, Canada

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Parents of Anne BOURDON

Father

Jean BOURDON

Mother

Jacqueline POTEL

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Recorded occupation: first Canadian superior of the Ursulines in New France

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Baptism

Anne Bourdon
28 August 1644
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec

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Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography

BOURDON, ANNE, dite de Sainte-Agnès, first Canadian superior of the Ursulines in New France; b. 29 Aug. 1644 at Quebec, daughter of Jean Bourdon*, attorney general of New France and Jacqueline Potel; d. 4 Nov. 1711.

As early as 23 Aug. 1648 the “Registre des entrées des pensionnaires” mentions the girl’s presence at the Ursuline seminary: “Her mother brought her there through fear of the Iroquois.” Anne, a precocious child, applied to enter the order of the Ursulines of Quebec at the age of 14. She was admitted to the noviciate on 8 Sept. 1658, and made her profession on 30 Sept. 1660. Bishop Laval received the young Ursuline’s vows, “a thing which had never occurred before in Canada.” The wording of the vows required her “to concern herself to the best of her ability with the teaching of little French and Indian girls.” Hence the necessity of learning the Algonkian, Huron, and even Iroquois languages. Anne Bourdon had as her teacher of Indian languages Marie de l’Incarnation

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003