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- 1992: A food bank feeding poor families located in Côte-des-Neiges is closed. A nun from the Holy-Cross Congregation, Sister Denise Arsenault, gathers all the women who used to go to the food bank to find a solution to their misery.
Women are invited to propose a project that they could realize together. That is how the idea of sewing started.
- 1994: The first sewing course starts with seven students and four sewing machines. Two months later, a sewing shop becomes functional.
- 1995: The name will be officially written on the Patent Letters, a necessary title for a charity organization.
- 2000: Petites-Mains is acknowledged as Entreprise d’insertion, the first in Côte-des-Neiges.
- 2004: Petites-Mains gets its accreditation from Emploi-Québec and le Collectif des enterprises d’insertion du Québec.
- 2007: Petites-Mains has found a new house and the organization is relocated on St-Laurent boulevard. The financial partners who helped purchase the building are :
