In 1890, at the request of Bishop Richard Alphonsus O'Connor, she led the small group of sisters from Toronto to establish a congregation for the Diocese of Peterborough and to help run St. Joseph's Hospital.

[3] In 2008, facing a shrinking congregation, the Sisters decided to sell the Mount and built a smaller, modern, environmentally conscious convent designed by Teeple Architects nextdoor.

Since 2011, the Peterborough Poverty Reduction Network had been investigating the potential and the risks of acquiring the former Mount building as a community asset.

[11] Today space in the building is leased by community organizations such as the Victorian Order of Nurses and the Kawartha Land Trust.

Originally an Italianate residence, later remodelling transformed the building into the more ecclesiastical Neoclassical and Gothic Revival styles.

[3] Noted Toronto-based ecclesiastical architect Arthur W. Holmes designed the chapel constructed in 1933 in the Gothic Revival style.