MISSIONARIES OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. — The Institute was founded in 1902 at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges near Montréal (Canada), by Delia Tétrault and Giuseppina Montomarquet, under the direction of the parish priest of St-Louis-de-Fronne, Fr. Gustavo Bourassa, and the high protection of the archbishop, who two years later canonically erected it and on 8 August 1903 received its first professions. In 1909 the first house in mission territory was opened, in Canton.
On 1 March 1925 it obtained the decree of praise and, at the same time, temporary approval of the Constitutions, which were definitively approved on 7 March 1933.
The Institute’s principal purpose is missionary apostolate. In 1947 there were 571 sisters and 39 novices, distributed among 40 houses.