Providence Rock

Providence Rock (52˚08'45" 128˚33'00" Milbanke Sd, SW of Athlone I, off Cape Mark, W of Bella Bella). Named in 1948 for Sister Mary Providence (Mary Ellen Tucker, 1837–1904), who arrived at Victoria in 1859 to become superior of the Sisters of St Ann. The first members of this community of nuns had come out the year before and established a school. Sister (later Mother) Providence supervised the activities of her order in western Canada for more than 20 years, and though she rarely left the...

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