We are both Mount Saint Vincent University Alumnae and wanted to share some favourite memories from our time on campus and history of this fine University.
MSVU was founded in 1873 by the Sisters of Charity on a strip of land in Rockingham, then a small village on the wooded outskirts of Halifax.
Originally Mount Saint Vincent opened to house young women and novices, and to train them as teachers. Soon the Sisters recognized a need to educate other young women and therefore opened the academy to young women who lived in the city of Halifax.
In 1925 MSV Collage was granted a charter to grant degrees to women in Education, Nursing and the Arts. A new charter in 1966 renamed the academy, Mount Saint Vincent University and began admitting men as students in 1967.
January 1951 after many years of growth both physically in the expansion of the original academy and programs offered, MSVA was completely destroyed by a fire with no loss of life.
When walking on campus you can still see some remnants of where the original building stood.
Close to the original main gate used to sit a grotto with a statue of the Virgin Mary inside.
I placed a bonus cache there to remember this and other religious statues that are no-longer present at the Mount.
Please obey parking restrictions on campus, Monday through Friday.
Check in Cache for further co-ordinates to visit the Grotto.
There is a toonie for a coffee on us to the first find.
camoed coffee tin