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 High School was constructed on the same property and opened in 1964. In 2008, Holy Name of Mary College School came into being. Beginning in 1953, the sisters in Canada operated as a Canadian Commissiarate and then as a vice-province in 1965. Holy Name of Mary became an official province in 1988.
