{"id":161,"date":"2018-09-12T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2018-09-24T14:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T17:51:14","slug":"ellen-mcneill-arsenault-1908-2005","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/the-people\/the-women-of-the-antigonish-movement\/ellen-mcneill-arsenault-1908-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen McNeill Arsenault (1908-2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=&#8221;3.15&#8243; meta=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.15&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-162 size-medium\" title=\"Ellen McNeill Arsenault \" src=\"http:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ellen2-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen McNeill Arsenault \" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ellen2-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ellen2.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/>Ellen Arsenault was born in Traveler\u2019s Rest, near Summerside, Prince Edward Island in 1908. She was educated at Miscouche Convent School, and Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, PE. For five years she taught school on the Island and then received a business secretary diploma and worked as a legal secretary and at the Provincial Bank there. She was a young widow with children when Dr. Moses Coady, first director of the St. F.X. Extension Department, asked her to move to Antigonish to join the staff of the St. F.X. Extension Department. She acted as his personal secretary for many years. Upon Dr. Coady\u2019s death in 1959 she became secretary to the first director of The Coady International Institute, Msgr. Francis J. Smyth, and also acted as admissions secretary there as well.<\/p>\n<p>In 1974 she represented the Coady at an ACOSCA African Coop Savings and Credit Association conference held in Zambia, Africa. She retired from St. F.X. in September 1977. As one of the executors and curators of Dr. Coady\u2019s papers she worked closely with many academics and scholars researching the history of the St. F.X. Extension Department and the Antigonish Movement. She was actively involved in St. Ninian\u2019s Cathedral Parish as a lector, member of the choir, Catholic Womens\u2019 League and St. Vincent de Paul Society. She died September 27, 2005 in the Port Hawkesbury Nursing Home. Funeral services were held from St. Ninian\u2019s Cathedral, Antigonish, NS, with burial in the parish cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Ellen Arsenault was born in Traveler\u2019s Rest, near Summerside, Prince Edward Island in 1908. She was educated at Miscouche Convent School, and Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, PE. For five years she taught school on the Island and then received a business secretary diploma and worked as a legal secretary and at the Provincial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":143,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<div>\u00a0<\/div><div><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-162 size-medium\" title=\"Ellen McNeill Arsenault \" src=\"http:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ellen2-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen McNeill Arsenault \" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" \/>Ellen Arsenault was born in Traveler\u2019s Rest, near Summerside, Prince Edward Island in 1908. She was educated at Miscouche Convent School, and Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, PE. For five years she taught school on the Island and then received a business secretary diploma and worked as a legal secretary and at the Provincial Bank there. She was a young widow with children when Dr. Moses Coady, first director of the St. F.X. Extension Department, asked her to move to Antigonish to join the staff of the St. F.X. Extension Department. She acted as his personal secretary for many years. Upon Dr. Coady\u2019s death in 1959 she became secretary to the first director of The Coady International Institute, Msgr. Francis J. Smyth, and also acted as admissions secretary there as well.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>In 1974 she represented the Coady at an ACOSCA African Coop Savings and Credit Association conference held in Zambia, Africa. She retired from St. F.X. in September 1977. As one of the executors and curators of Dr. Coady\u2019s papers she worked closely with many academics and scholars researching the history of the St. F.X. Extension Department and the Antigonish Movement. She was actively involved in St. Ninian\u2019s Cathedral Parish as a lector, member of the choir, Catholic Womens\u2019 League and St. Vincent de Paul Society. She died September 27, 2005 in the Port Hawkesbury Nursing Home. 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