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The Ursuline Sisters were the first Catholic nuns to land in the new world.

In 1639, Mother Marie of the Incarnation ( née Marie Guyart, b. 1599 ), two other Ursuline nuns, and a Jesuit priest left France for a mission to Canada.

When they arrived in the summer of 1639, they studied the language of the native peoples