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The Daughters of Charity Provincial Archive features a guest post by Sister Margaret Ann Gainey, archivist for the Daughters of Charity Province of the West in Los Altos Hills, CA.
From New York, the Sisters took a steamer to Panama where they then had to cross the Isthmus of Panama. The Panama Canal was decades in the future; the Sisters crossed the Isthmus by a combination of rail, boat, and mule. Two Sisters died of cholera while on the Isthmus.
Learn more on their blog, at
http://dcarchives.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/journey-to-california/
Tags: California, Daughters of Charity, Provincial Archives