Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy

Canada, United States

It was during the period from 1950 to 1965 that the communities of brother educators experienced their greatest expansion. With particular regard to the pedagogical training of their members, each community owned, financed and directed one or more Scholasticates-Normal Schools.

Around the same time, the project of bringing together the human and financial resources of the communities of brother educators haunted the minds of some avant-gardists. The Lesage government, for its part, declared itself ready to partially subsidize the training of future religious, provided that the communities came together for this purpose. On December 20, 1961, Mr. Jean-Marie Martin, Deputy Minister of Youth and Director of Higher Education of Quebec, met with thirteen provincial brothers to inform them of the government’s intentions. It is under this double push that the Notre-Dame-de-Foy Campus was designed and built.