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Grey Nuns at the First Notre-Dame Hospital, 1923

Black and white photograph of a group of 25 women in religious attire arranged in three tiers on a platform. They are in a room with wood panel walls and opaque glass windows at the top.

Archives des Sœurs Grises de Montréal, 1923

This photograph, taken at the former Notre-Dame Hospital, located on the corner of Bonsecours Street and Notre Dame Street East in Old Montréal, shows a group of nuns and their Mother Superior Aurore Blain (first row, fourth person starting from the left). Also of note, Sister Saint-Roch (fifth person, second row), who would become the first Director of the Radium Institute four years later.