Louise  SOUMANDE

SOUMANDE, LOUISE, dite de Saint-Augustin, Religious Hospitaller, first superior of the Hôpital Général of Quebec; b. 16 May 1664 at Quebec, daughter of Pierre Soumande, master maker of edge tools, and of Simone Côté; d. 28 Nov. 1708 at Quebec.

At an early age Louise Soumande became a boarding pupil with the Ursulines, but she returned to her parents’ home around the age of 13. She formed a friendship with the son of a merchant from Blois, who had come to Canada on business. Father Chastellain*, her confessor, who wished her to give herself to God and who feared that “their ties would grow stronger,” persuaded her to enter the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec as a boarder, for God, he said, “wanted her entirely, without sharing her with anyone.” She made up her mind to this vocation on 19 March 1678, but did not intend to become a nun. The following November, however, she entered the noviciate. Two years later the community voted unanimously to allow her to take her vows. Louise Soumande was in

pierre Soumandre ............................48 Me. taillandier
Simonne Costé................................28 sa femme
Louis Soumandre..............................14 fils
Marie Soumandre .............................11 fille
Jean Soumandre ..............................10 fils
pierre Soumandre..............................7 fils
Anne Soumandre................................8 fille
Jean Soumandre ...............................5 fils
Louise Soumandre..............................2 fille
Mathieu gregoire.............................20 Engaigé domestique
Mathieu Lauvendin............................22 taillandier Engaigé
Et Mathurin Croiser .........................50 aussy Engaigé