Stock photo: Saint Boniface Museum the Former Grey Nuns Convent at St Boniface in the City of Winnipeg in Manitob

Stock photo of the Saint Boniface Museum, the former Grey Nuns Convent, at St. Boniface in the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

This stock photo includes the Saint Boniface Museum, the former Grey Nuns Convent, St Boniface, City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum collects, preserves, researches, and interprets a collection of artifacts relating to Western Canada's French-Canadian and Métis heritage, while acknowledging the historical contributions of the First Nations and the religious communities. Built between 1845 and 1851, this former Grey Nuns' convent houses the Museum and is in fact its principal artifact. It is the oldest remaining structure in the city of Winnipeg and the largest oak log building in North America. The first hospital in Western Canada, the building is also a symbol of the 19th century missionary effort carried out in the West by the Grey Nuns and other Catholic communities from their St. Boniface base.