Mother Joseph Pariseau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Religious Sister and pioneer
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Place of Birth: Laval, Quebec, Canada
About Mother Joseph Pariseau
- Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, S.P., (16 April 1823 – 19 January 1902) was a Canadian Religious Sister who led a group of the members of her congregation to the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- There, under her leadership, they established a network of schools and healthcare to service the American settlers in that new and remote part of the country.
- She was the first female architect in British Columbia.
- For her contributions to the development of that region, she was honored by the State of Washington as one of the two people allowed to represent it in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C.
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