The Brothers of Our Lady of the Fields (Frères de Notre Dame des Champs) were a small Canadian Roman Catholic congregation active between 1902 and 1930.
In 1892, he built a convent-hospital to shelter orphans and the elderly and founded the Congrégation des sœurs de Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours to staff it.
[1] In order to counter the exodus of French-Canadian settlers to the industrialized regions of the United States, projects were developed by the Colonization Society of the Diocese of Quebec.
Brousseau envisioned a system whereby upon reaching the age of twelve, the boys cared for in the orphanages run by the sisters would move on to an agricultural training facility, and the girls would learn various domestic skills.
[4][5] In 1931, Bishop Georges Courchesne of Rimouski merged the Brothers of Our Lady of the Fields with the Clerics of St Viator.