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St. Ann's Academy

Victoria, Italy

St. Ann's Academy

St. Ann's Academy, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, was a girls' Catholic boarding and day school from grades 1–12, and boys K–3, though boys stopped being admitted in the 1950s. First Nations orphans and girls were sent to the Academy from other missions run by the Sisters of St. Ann. The mai

n academy building, which also served as the Provincial House, convent and novitiate, was built by the Roman Catholic Congregation of Women the Sisters of Saint Anne of Lachine, Quebec. The chapel, designed by Father Joseph Michaud, was built in 1858 as St. Andrew's Cathedral was moved in 1886 to be St. Ann's Chapel and is the oldest part of the Academy. Later a convent was added (1887) to the west side of the Academy and behind the Academy (1910).

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