The school on College street (n.d.)

Following the sale in 1884 of its first school, located on Main Street, the Catholic School Board had another one built at the corner of Saint-Patrice Street and College Street. Secular instructors were in charge of teaching as of its first year of operation. Then, the Magog priest Charles-Édouard Milette invited the Marianites de Sainte-Croix et des Sept-Douleurs nuns to take it over. Father Milette, in collaboration with the bishop of Sherbrooke Monseigneur Antoine Racine, succeeded in convincing Monseigneur Fabre, ecclesiastical superior of the Sainte-Croix order, to allow the nuns to offer coeducational teaching.[1].The Sainte-Croix nuns, therefore, taught mixed classes from 1885 to 1891, that is until the Catholic School Board allowed the construction of a convent where girls in Magog could be taught. In 1895, the Sacré-Cœur brothers took charge of this school until it was sold and moved in 1914.

[1] Jacques Desgrandchamps, Monseigneur Antoine Racine et les communautés de religieuses enseignantes, 1874-1893, Sherbrooke, Groupe de recherche en histoire des Cantons-de-l’Est, 1980,pp. 103-112.