2165 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, ON Canada L5H 2K8
(905) 278-5452
History of the Convent
The need to help Polish immigrants get established in a new country brought the Felician Sisters from Buffalo to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1937. Until 1956, they lived in a convent on Augusta Avenue in downtown Toronto, where they conducted a day nursery for children of working parents and a community meals program. In 1993, this space became St. Felix Centre, a place dedicated to providing a safe and welcoming environment to those on the margins. In 1956, the Felician Sisters acquired an estate on Mississauga Road, in Port Credit, with an English Tudor-style family home and 26 acres. They accomplished a renovation without any demolition of walls, giving the building a chapel, study rooms, dining rooms, dormitories and administrative offices. In 1958, with the help of volunteers and benefactors, a Lourdes Grotto was erected in a secluded spot on the convent grounds. Holy Name of Mary College School was constructed on the same property and opened in 1964.
