Leitha Muriel Browne Conference Centre

About the Leitha Muriel Browne Conference Centre

The Leitha Muriel Browne Conference Centre was established at the request of Leitha’s daughters,  Amryll Strachan and Margareta Phillips, to promote and encourage fundraising and donation initiatives exclusively for St. Dominic’s Children’s Home.

Leitha, a woman of the Caribbean, was born in St. Vincent on February 24, 1929, the youngest daughter of Gertrude Babb Browne and renowned Barbados/West Indies cricketer, Chester Allan Browne. She grew up in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago. As a child she developed ties with the Belmont Orphanage (SDCH), where some of her close friends resided.

Leitha attended St. Francis Girls School and was later employed as a women’s hat designer and supervisor for a Belmont headgear manufacturer. Leitha remained in Belmont until the age of fifty-five, when she emigrated to join family in Canada. She worked as a PSW (Personal Support Worker) and in LTC (Long Term Care), until retirement at the age of sixty-five.

After retirement, Leitha volunteered at the LTC home she had been employed by. She was awarded a number of recognitions for her dedication to caring for  the elderly. In addition to her working career, Leitha was a church choir soloist and gospel singer.

Leitha, who embodied compassion, empathy, and generosity passed away peacefully, with family at her side, at the age of 94 on September 17, 2023, in St. Catharines, ON, Canada.

No one is truly gone until the ripples they create in the world fadeaway.

The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.

 

The Power of Love

Your donation continues the legacy of community contributions Leitha made during her lifetime.

St. Dominic’s Children’s Home

LEITHA MURIEL BROWNE CONFERENCE CENTRE

“To receive is grace. To give is divine.”

Current Goals and Fundraising Targets 

• The renovation of the St. Dominic’s Trade School – Alternative Education Center, is one of the two projects for which funding is currently being sought.
• The second is the Veritas Center which provides wellness and restorative services for the children and members of their family system.

Please contact us for more information.