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Business View Magazine
Providence Manor
Enhancing quality of life for frail seniors in southeastern Ontario
Providence Manor is a long-term care home located
in the heart of downtown, Kingston, Ontario. It was
founded by the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de
Paul, who- according to their Mission statement, is an
apostolic congregation of vowed women religious who
are called upon to be “channels of God’s Providence.”
“A heart consecrated to charity,” is the Sisters’ motto.
Shelagh Nowlan, Providence Manor’s Vice-President of
Long-term Care, describes how the Manor was estab-
lished 150 years ago. “The Sisters arrived in Kingston
to begin their mission of caring for the vulnerable in
our society in Kingston, and they started their ministry
here at Providence Manor. Today, Providence Manor is
a 243-bed, faith-based, long-term care home. We are
part of a larger organization called Providence Care,
which also operates two hospitals and several com-
munity services focused on enhancing quality of life.
Following in the footsteps of the Sisters, we have been
in this business since 1861.”
According to Nowlan, “The Sisters worked in the pris-
ons, in the orphanages, with people with disabilities
and the vulnerable elderly. They used to go around
the city and area to collect donations to feed people.”
In fact, within days of their arrival in Kingston from
