Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace

Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace (1610-1646) was a French-Canadian abbess and hospital manager. She was the founder and manager of the convent hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in Quebec in 1639. It was the eldest women convent in Quebec, founded the same year as the Ursuline school convent by Marie de l'Incarnation - the two groups of nuns came to Canada in the same ship.