In 1855 the novitiate was transferred to Saint-Hugues, Quebec, and in 1858 it was definitively located at Saint-Hyacinthe in a convent which was occupied up to this time by the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame from Montreal.
This house was of insufficient accommodation and the community was obliged to erect, not far from the seminary, a large building of which they took possession in 1876.