Agency:.Coproduced by the National Film Board of Canada and Productions Appalaches with the financial participation of Province of New Brunswick, and in cooperation with Société Radio-Canada and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit. Agency - French program:.Acadie Studio.

Researcher, Rodolphe Caron ; writer, Rodolphe Caron ; director, Rodolphe Caron ; director of photography, François Vincelette ; location sound, Georges Hannan ; picture editing, Marcel Gallant ; original music, Claude J. Fournier ; sound editing, Mélanie Gauthier ; re-recording, Geoffrey Mitchell ; producer, France Gallant ; producer, Murielle Rioux-Poirier ; executive producer, Jacques Turgeon.

Participation, Hélène Allain, Auréa Cormier, Élisa Duguay, Murielle Duguay, Odette Léger, Adèle Morin, Thérèse Vautour, Angèle Arsenault, Lorraine Y. Bourque, Edmonde Collette Brondex, Florine Després, Madeleine Gagnon, Lauraine Léger, Annette Richard.

Recorded 2011.

The history of the Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur Congregation begins with a split-up. In 1924, fifty-three French-speaking nuns separated from their unilingual English community for cultural reasons, forming a new religious community that immediately began to campaign for the preservation of Acadian language, faith and culture. Convinced that education was essential for Acadian women, in 1943 the Congregation founded Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie, where young women were able to study in French for the first time in New Brunswick. Director Rodolphe Caron gives a voice to a group of strong-willed women who take issue with the stereotype of nuns submitting blindly to authority. With their great zest for life, thirst for justice and surprising outspokenness, they demonstrate a unique vision of their mission. They advocate equally for the rights of the poor and a greater role for women in the Catholic Church.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).