Sister Agnès

Sister Agnès, also known as Sister Dalton, was born in Châteauguay on April 23, 1862. Daughter of notary Alfred-Narcisse LePailleur and Philomène Dalton, she had a good education.

At 17, she joined the ranks of the Sisters of Charity (the Grey Nuns). She rose through the ranks to become the Provincial Superior. She remained a nun until her death on April 16, 1951. She was 88 years old.

Newspaper clipping from La Presse,  April 17,1951 (translated):

Death of Mother Dalton

Of the Grey Nuns community

Montréal Reverend Mother Dalton, former Provincial Superior died yesterday in the mother house of the Grey Nuns of Montréal, at the age of 89. She was born Agnès Le Pailleur and took her mother’s name when she became a nun on November 21, 1879, at the age of 17. She had taken her vows on May 16, 1882.

She was successively Superior of the Nazareth Institute, of the Ecole ménagère Saint-Joseph, of the Patronage of Youville, of the Mother House and of the convent of Longueuil. She had been forced to rest since1944 because of an illness.

Mother Dalton was the sister of Mgr. Georges-Marie Le Pailleur, who died a few years ago. She leaves a nephew, H. E. Mgr. Alfred LePailleur, bishop of Cyparissia; two brothers: Armand Le Pailleur, of Lachine and Charles Le Pailleur, of Montréal; three sisters in religion: RR. SS. Marie de Nazareth, of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, Georges-Alfred et Marie-Louise, of the Sisters of Providence, and one sister living in Montréal, Mrs. A. Joubert. She was also the cousin of Canon Jules Bourassa, pastor of the parish of Sacré-Coeur in Montréal, and the aunt of R.P. Adrien LePailleur, O.M.I., of the University of Ottawa.