Amanda Viger was a Canadian nun known for her work in helping people with leprosy.
[1] She completed her secondary studies at the Congregation of Notre-Dame in Boucherville’s boarding school.
[citation needed] She was 15 years old when she joined the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph of Montreal and she took her vows on February 2, 1863.
From 1888 the children were lodged near the lazaretto, and Viger helped raise funds for a new school that was completed in 1898.
[1] Then, in 1902, she was elected superior of the Hôtel-Dieu of Arthabaskaville which she had a larger building constructed and helped with the financial issues facing the institution.