caption death_date death_place religion birth_place article_title ethnicity parents birth_date known_for image employer name occupation death_cause
statue at the foot of maisonneuve monument 18 june 1673 montréal roman catholic langres , haute-marne jeanne mance
 french catherine Émonnot charles mance 12 november 1606 founding of montreal hôtel-dieu de montréal jeanne mance.jpg société notre-dame de montréal jeanne mance nurse illness
jeanne mance

jeanne mance -lrb- november 12 , 1606 -- june 18 , 1673 -rrb- was a french nurse and settler of new france .
she arrived in new france two years after the ursuline nuns came to quebec .
among the founders of montreal , canada , in 1642 , she established its first hospital , the hôtel-dieu de montréal , in 1645 .
she returned twice to france to seek financial support for the hospital .
after providing most of the care directly for years , in 1657 she recruited three sisters of the religious hospitallers of st. joseph , and continued to direct operations of the hospital .
