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Mrs. Rita V. MacNeill

  • Deceased
  • Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada

    Order of Canada

    • Member of the Order of Canada

      Awarded on: 1982-12-20
      Invested on: 1983-04-20
      Thirty years ago, Mrs. MacNeill began taking severely mentally-challenged children into her house at Dieppe, New Brunswick, and her summer cottage at Shediac. Since then she has been foster mother to as many as fourteen at a time, to a grand total of 368. Offering them the security and affection of' a family home, she has cheerfully given of herself in a work, the burden of which only a few are able to bear.