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Tribute to Our Founder
 

Sister Mary Alice Danaher                       1928 - 2005

We share the sense of loss felt by everyone touched by Sister Mary Alice Danaher's life-long work making post-secondary education accessible to the First Nations people of the Cariboo Chilcotin.

Excerpt taken from:

Speech from the Throne

The Honourable Iona Campagnolo
Lieutenant Governor at the Opening of the First Session, Thirty-Eighth Parliament of the Province of British Columbia

September 12, 2005

Sister Mary Alice worked closely with the First Nations Communities in developing the Weekend University and was instrumental to its opening in 1997.