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The National Capital Commission has bought a century-old Gatineau convent on the Ottawa River beside Jacques-Cartier Park.
The NCC announced Friday it had reached an agreement with the Congrégation des servantes de Jésus-Marie to buy the 80-room convent and chapel at 200 Laurier St.
The deal cost $7.78 million and was based on fair market value as established by an independent appraiser.
The convent was built in 1911, but is not considered a heritage site. The chapel dates back to 1926. The property sits on an 8,700-square-metre riverfront site and was the last piece of private land in Jacques-Cartier Park.
The congregation will stay in the building for three years while it arranges a new home.
A 1997 photo shows nuns at ‘Les Servantes de Jésus-Marie convent making communion wafers.
No one at the convent was available to speak to Postmedia Friday morning, but the NCC released a statement from Sister Marie-du-Bon-Pasteur, Mother-Servant General of the congregation.
“Our community of sisters gladly welcomes the NCC’s public stewardship of this property that has been our home for over a century. Also, we thank the NCC for working with the congrégation to ensure a smooth transition to its new home,” the statement said.
The NCC intends to hold public consultations to decide how to use the property.
The nuns who live in the congregation are cloistered and have little interaction with the outside world. The convent was well-known for producing the communion wafers used in Catholic mass across Ontario and Quebec.
In 1984, Pope John Paul II visited the congregation and performed a private mass for the 250 sisters who lived there at the time. Since then, the congregation has dwindled to just a few dozen.
bcrawford@postmedia.com
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The NCC announced Friday it had reached an agreement with the Congrégation des servantes de Jésus-Marie to buy the 80-room convent and chapel at 200 Laurier St.
The deal cost $7.78 million and was based on fair market value as established by an independent appraiser.
The convent was built in 1911, but is not considered a heritage site. The chapel dates back to 1926. The property sits on an 8,700-square-metre riverfront site and was the last piece of private land in Jacques-Cartier Park.
The congregation will stay in the building for three years while it arranges a new home.
A 1997 photo shows nuns at ‘Les Servantes de Jésus-Marie convent making communion wafers.
No one at the convent was available to speak to Postmedia Friday morning, but the NCC released a statement from Sister Marie-du-Bon-Pasteur, Mother-Servant General of the congregation.
“Our community of sisters gladly welcomes the NCC’s public stewardship of this property that has been our home for over a century. Also, we thank the NCC for working with the congrégation to ensure a smooth transition to its new home,” the statement said.
The NCC intends to hold public consultations to decide how to use the property.
The nuns who live in the congregation are cloistered and have little interaction with the outside world. The convent was well-known for producing the communion wafers used in Catholic mass across Ontario and Quebec.
In 1984, Pope John Paul II visited the congregation and performed a private mass for the 250 sisters who lived there at the time. Since then, the congregation has dwindled to just a few dozen.
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
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