Deaths on June 18

Jeanne Mance

Died on June 18, 1673

Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (b. 1606)

Jeanne Mance (November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645. She returned twice to France to seek financial support for the hospital. After providing most of the care directly for years, in 1657 she recruited three sisters of the Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph, and continued to direct operations of the hospital.

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Jeanne Mance
Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal

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Mississippi River
French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.