tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27208049855686336622024-03-13T04:15:10.864-07:00SaskatchewanHistory,population,news,stories and events of La Loche and the North-WestRD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-24347587532472076992020-07-01T22:24:00.000-07:002020-07-04T22:06:22.701-07:00Peter Apsit Photos 1916 -1921 at Portage La Loche<div style="text-align: left;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1920 photo taken in Portage La Loche </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Eleonore Marie Laprise (nee J</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">anvier in 1901 at La Loche) holding her son Johnny (nee Janvier) Laprise in a mossbag. </span>(from the Peter Apsit photo collection provided by Gerald Sarapu)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption" style="font-family: inherit;">Apsit cabin 1918-1921. Peter and John Apsit are in their cabin sitting at a table and lying on a cot by the window. On the wall is a 1918 calendar and dozens of photos. (from the Peter Apsit photo collection provided by Gerald Sarapu)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter Laprise of Buffalo Narrows.told me the story of his grandmother Eleonore and her son Johnny a few years ago. Peter began with a 1920 photo taken in La Loche </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Eleonore Marie Laprise (nee J</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">anvier in 1901 at La Loche) holding her son Johnny (nee Janvier) Laprise in a mossbag. Eleonore would later marry Laurent Laprise.of Garson Lake. Her son Johnny would marry Jessie Woods-Seright of Bulls House located on the La Loche River.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The 1920 photo was taken by Peter Apsit the father of Johnny. Johnny's son Peter Laprise (my nephew-in-law) recounted this story.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />Peter Apsit died in 1981 at 96 years old. An anecdote about his last days mentioned that he hugged his nurse calling her Eleonore yet no one knew an Eleonore and this event remained a mystery. It was not until 2015 that a visit from a stranger revealed the cause of Peter Apsit display of affection</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />In the spring of 2015 ,searching for his lost relative, Peter Laprise of Buffalo Narrows arrived in Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba with a piece of paper on which the name of Peter Apsit appeared. Stopping at a service station he asked if anyone knew of any Apsit living in the area. No the clerk said however the next person in line said go to a store nearby and they will know how to get to their farm.<br /><br />Peter Laprise arrived at the Apsit farm at 8:00 in the morning and talked to Alfred (Alfie) Apsit who was working in his garden. After identifying himself and giving him the reason for his presence Alfred invited him in for coffee. And so mysteries from both sides of the family were revealed. People in a photo that Peter Apsit carried in his wallet for a lifetime were identified as Eleonore and her son Johnny. And Peter left Alfie and Gail Apsit's Lac du Bonnet farm with precious photos of his grandmother and father when they were young and photos of his biological grandfather. I posted Peter's story and photos on the Facebook site "Laloche History".</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />A year later Gerald Sarapu also posted several of his grandfather's (Peter Apsit) photos of La Loche on the site. More communications followed between friends on Facebook and Gerald was able to share more than one hundred Peter Apsit photos. Gerald also included a short biography of Peter and John Apsit and their families. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 1905 twenty-year old Peter Apsit left Riga, Latvia which was then within the Russian Empire and sailed as a deck hand to London, England where he jumped ship. A three masted ship brought him to Florida a few months later where he jumped ship again. By walking and sometimes</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> riding empty railway boxcars </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">he arrived at his cousin's in Chicago. His brother John later joined him and the two worked until they had enough money saved and in 1915 they looked into buying land in Canada but could find nothing suitable.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />The Canadian Census of 1916 finds the two brothers in northwestern Saskatchewan at Portage La Loche 100 km/69 miles east of Fort McMurray. The brothers Peter (age 30) and John (age 27) along with John Evans (age 30) and Clyde C White (age 30) are trappers at Firebag Lake 107 km/66 miles north of West La Loche. Firebag Lake is at co-ordinates 57.420284, -109.850597 Both were Lutheran (although Roman Catholic on the census), of Russian nationality and spoke English.<br /><br />In the Canada Census of 1921 the Apsit brothers are still in Portage La Loche on the Hudson's Bay Post side of Lac La Loche. There English was spoken by many. At the La Loche Mission side where the modern settlement of La Loche is located Dene was and still is the language of the majority. French, Cree and Michif were also spoken by a few as second or third languages since they were needed in the fur trade. This is the place of the La Loche Portage also called the Methye Portage. This carrying place has been involved in the fur trade for more than two hundred years.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Most of the men from the age of thirteen or fourteen are trappers, fur traders or fishermen in the Census of 1916 and 1921. The Peter Apsit photos are of these men and their families. and their cabins, dog teams, canoes, horses, and of caribou and furs of many kinds. There are scenes of the Clearwater River and northern lakes. They visited Ile a la Crosse, Fort McMurray, Lac La Biche and the port of Churchill. We are fortunate that a hundred years ago </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter and John Apsit brought a camera with them on their trapline. We are grateful that their family has shared the photos with us. The last words of this story belongs to Gerald Sarapu, the grandson of Peter Apsit; who commented on the first photo he shared; " I believe that photos like these must be shared of they will be lost forever." </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219597167853328&set=pcb.1717445392004371&type=3&theater&ifg=1">Link to photos of the Hudson's Bay Company Portage La Loche</a></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />This story includes information from the family history written by Ruth Sarapu of Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba, from information in the Canada Census of 1916 and 1921, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">from the photos of Peter Apsit contributed by Gerald Sarapu and from research done by friends on Facebook (including Peter Laprise, Les Oystryk and Blair Jean Author Historian)</span>RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-37600610544639826382019-11-11T22:32:00.000-08:002019-11-11T22:34:13.619-08:00<div class="clearfix fbPhotoSnowliftAuthorInfo _xlu" style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 16px; position: relative; zoom: 1;">
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RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-46122562964608831392017-04-13T23:05:00.001-07:002020-07-10T22:49:28.393-07:00A picture and a story--Magloire and Mary Rose--August 1945 in La Loche<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From <a href="http://archivesshsb.mb.ca/fr/permalink/archives113364">Société historique de Saint-Boniface archives</a>.comes this photo captioned simply "newlyweds'. A mistaken description quickly discovered by facebook readers when it was published there. This is a brother and sister in front of the rectory in La Loche-- Magloire Montgrand and Mary Jane Jolibois --They were identified by Manny Sylvestre as "Magloire Montgrand and Mary Jane Jolibois, they are not newlyweds, they are brother and sister". They are my "great grandpa and auntie"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Magloire Montgrand is now 90 years old and is living in Descharme Lake north of La Loche with his son's family. <br />
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His sister Mary Jane Jolibois (wife of<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> Alex Jolibois) was killed by the whirling propeller blade of an aircraft in 1965 at Descharme Lake when she was 39 years old. The aircraft was owned by Grover Clarke, of Meadow Lake, Sask. The old town of Descharme had a fish filleting plant and a store. It had an airstrip and a hanger. These were run and owned by C. & M. Airways of La Loche. G.M. Clarke and John H. Midgett of Meadow Lake were the owners with Leon Belanger of Ile a la Crosse as another partner. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #260a00; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">The Dene High School cultural camp is now located nearby. </span> A memorial cross is located on the spot of the accident.<a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DzBgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mG8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2813%2C3929068&dq=descharme%20lake%20sk&hl=en">---News story: "Woman Killed By Airplane Propeller"---</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Loche August 17-24, 1945 -- Magloire Montgrand on the left and his sister Mary Jane Montgrand (Jolibois) on the right with their parents Joseph and Rosa Montgrand. (Joseph was also later identified as Marc Montgrand also known as Jean-Baptiste). <a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Farchivesshsb.mb.ca%2Fen%2Fpermalink%2Farchives113280%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3yx4nIPq3iezJ9C0rLZDJ6s7_VqfL2FmafgpYM3MN0zvVE3fkmbmwa1lg&h=AT1RL0f905POl7g0YroLOn-ckEHR7imXeZGyDAQjj6UR4VV-AWXxzIK0IkUicKO3gNcwUnBM9VWXPlWd36Pmml7807hO38Qr7P5utSeQ05RAtTLzZyIRdXStvCJOdGsjoGqrlw" href="https://archivesshsb.mb.ca/en/permalink/archives113280?fbclid=IwAR3yx4nIPq3iezJ9C0rLZDJ6s7_VqfL2FmafgpYM3MN0zvVE3fkmbmwa1lg" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">https://archivesshsb.mb.ca/en/permalink/archives113280</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></td></tr>
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<br />RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-63175347056717752822017-04-13T22:22:00.002-07:002017-06-19T23:51:19.318-07:00From New York City to La Loche with love<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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The children of New York City have sent us stars. Each star is painted on one side and a message is written on the opposite side. Made by school children of New York City for the children of La Loche to place around town at a place of their choosing. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/raymond.dauvin/media_set?set=a.10211234869921106.1073741953.1039612402&type=3&pnref=story">Photos by Raymond Dauvin</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The star marked "Hope" has a message from; "Dunya...Love". The other has the message "Hope you can re-build what was damaged...Emilie." ----(Thank you Emilie)--</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one says; "Helo my name is Sasha. I'm from New York and I'm thinking of you!".--(Thank you Sasha)--</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sasha sent us this star with "Love". The message on the other side says; "Helo my name is Sasha. I'm from New York and I'm thinking of you!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The message on this star says; "Marilyn in New York City. Wishing you a bright and warm future."</td></tr>
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"Stars of Hope have been delivered to our community from New York. They are meant to be a symbol as a daily reminder that children in New York City care about the people of our community and that we are all in this together. They will be placed on fences, trees, and other public places to give our community a sense of HOPE each and every day. Students from Dene High and Ducharme Elementary will be placing them throughout our community this week. Please respect these wonderful gifts and leave them where they are placed ' .<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ducharmeelementaryschool/posts/486635858392146?hc_location=ufi" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Link to La Loche Community School</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The stars were sent in response to a tragedy that occurred in La Loche in 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">"On January 22, 2016, four people were killed and seven others injured in a</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span>shooting spree<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> in La Loche. Two people were killed at their home and a teacher and an educational assistant were killed at the</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Loche_shootings" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">La Loche Community School</a>".</div>
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<br />RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-59666070211105772962017-04-13T21:57:00.001-07:002017-04-13T21:57:30.339-07:00 Buffalo Narrows ferry--The drownings in 1965 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buffalo Narrows ferry--The drownings in February 1965--"Albert John Savidan, 38, and his wife Muriel, 33, of Hoey, Sask., drowned Wednesday night at Buffalo Narrows, Sask, "...."Mr. Savidan and his wife were passengers in a car driven by his brother, Paul Savidan, 32. The driver and his sister, Sister Lawrence of La Loche. Sask., were rescued by the operators of the Buffalo Narrows ferry.' (They were heading north to La Loche at night and may have missed the signs for the ferry crossing or their brakes failed. They drove into the water.) <a href="http://saskhistoryonline.ca/islandora/object/pahkisimon%3A1054">photo link</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of the ferry and the south-side where the vehicle entered the water.<a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ejZgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0G8NAAAAIBAJ&dq=la+loche&pg=3158%2C3812713">Saskatoon Star-Phoenix - Feb 26, 1965--news article</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This bridge, completed in 1981, crosses the Kisis Channel at Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan. The photo was taken on the north end of the old ferry site in 2016, (photo by Raymond Dauvin).</td></tr>
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<br />RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-29822661895255214082017-02-06T16:31:00.000-08:002020-07-14T17:47:01.265-07:00Buffalo Narrows axe murders 1969<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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"On the night of January 30, 1969, 19-year-old <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Frederick McCallum</span> intruded into the home of the Pederson family, slaying seven people with an axe in the remote Saskatchewan town of Buffalo Narrows. He murdered Mr. and Mrs. Pederson and four of their children, along with a family friend. The only survivor was their 7-year-old son, who was in critical condition after the attack. A psychiatric evaluation revealed he showed signs of schizophrenia, and he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. In January 1970, he was moved from a mental institution to Saskatchewan Federal Penitentiary when a psychiatrist ruled he was no longer mentally ill and didn’t require treatment. </div>
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McCallum contacted several people after the murders, and once he was apprehended, police found him at his home enjoying a cup of tea. When the officer told him he was under arrest for murder, he replied: </div>
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<a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_zVgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zm8NAAAAIBAJ&dq=la%20loche&pg=6853%2C4087414"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forty-eight years ago on January 30,1969 seven people were murdered during the night in Buffalo Narrows. The older generation remembers. They don't talk about it very often. It was a shared community trauma much like La Loche has experienced and is experiencing since January 22, 2016 the day of the school shootings The Phoenix newspaper wrote the following article on the tragic event. .</span>Seven murder counts laid in northern axe deaths</a>RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-82302024205429091272016-05-13T09:05:00.001-07:002017-02-13T16:21:21.883-08:00Smoke in La Loche May 2016<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"On May 1, 2016, a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildfire" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Wildfire">wildfire</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> began southwest of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McMurray" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Fort McMurray">Fort McMurray</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Alberta">Alberta</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, Canada. On May 3</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, it swept through the community, destroying more than 2,400 homes and buildings and forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Alberta" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="History of Alberta">Alberta's history</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;">" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Fort_McMurray_wildfire">Wikipedia</a></span></div>
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The northern Saskatchewan village of La Loche with an area population of 4,000 is 120 km (75 miles) to the east of the city of Fort McMurray. Clouds of s<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">moke and ash from the wildfires reached La Loche on May 5. When the air quality was poor the schools were either closed or the children kept inside.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Friday morning at 9:30, May 13, 2016. </span>Toulejour Street</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Friday morning, May 13, 2016. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">La Loche village office</span></td></tr>
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<br />RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-42744172834887165832015-08-10T18:19:00.000-07:002017-02-13T16:22:09.559-08:00West La Loche 2015<div style="text-align: right;">
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Leaving Poplar Point, a sub-division of La Loche, with <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Alfred Toulejour in his new skiff.</span></div>
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A house made of square cut logs with one bedroom in the back and a loft at <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">West La Loche. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This was a common house type in the Lac La Loche area until </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">three bedroom homes </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">began being built in La Loche in the 1970's</span></div>
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Justine inside the log cabin beside a wood cookstove. A pole used to dry clothes <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">hangs from the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ceiling </span></div>
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Albert tells a story about this grave. Here a young Dene man <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">known for his piety is buried. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The recent fires of July 2015 have </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">blackened the area surrounding the cemetery but the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">cemetery grounds were not touched. Nearby stood</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> a </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Catholic church (now demolished) and a </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Hudson's Bay Company Post which burned in 1936.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">This aerial photo of La Loche shows how vulnerable the village is to forest fires. Two nearby fires and the resulting heavy smoke has resulted in the evacuation of several thousand residents of La Loche and the Clearwater River Dene Nation to Prince Albert, Saskatoon and Regina. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">The "Clay" fire is located west across Lac La Loche and the "Mack" fire is just east of La Loche north of McLean Lake.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Lac La Loche at the Clearwater beach on the Clearwater River Dene Nation. Taken Sunday, a pall on smoke obscures the sky. For the next three days the smoke was near ground level and on Canada Day the smoke was a little less dense. People who remained in the community stayed indoors. Some businesses offering essential services stayed open. The hospital remained closed. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Size of the Clay fire located across the lake from La Loche on June 30, 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mack fire east of the village on June 30, 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Aerial map showing MacLean Lake on the right bottom and La Loche on the left bottom. The white line is a planned fire break that is a little over 50% complete. Yellow dots are other fire breaks. The red line shows the extent of the Mack fire.</td></tr>
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Another aerial view of La Loche showing existing fire-breaks on the south side of the community in the sub-division of Poplar Point.</div>
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This July 4, 2015 update is from Chief Teddy Clarke of the Clearwater River Dene Nation. The Mack fire has reached Bear Creek located about 50 km. south of La Loche on Highway 155 and the settlement has been evacuated.</div>
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<br />RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-56596578292702435412015-05-17T14:58:00.002-07:002019-05-16T12:19:23.918-07:00Grassfires in La Loche<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">A grass fire in La Loche claimed the old pool hall across from Ducharme School last week. The building was built in the 1950s. This picture was taken last year. In the spring every year dozens of grass fires threaten the community.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Center Point in La Loche, Saskatchewan will open on May 15, 2015. The 10,000 square foot building has a large grocery area, a pharmacy, a concession (C-Store) and a fast-food outlet (Sabai Express).<br />
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The emergency fire siren started at 3:30 in the morning on October 1, 2014. <span style="text-align: center;">La Loche Volunteer Fire Department was still at the scene a</span><span style="text-align: center;">t 3:00 in the afternoon</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">and the fire was still smouldering when these pictures were taken. Destroyed in the fire was</span><span style="text-align: center;"> the Chester Fried Chicken outlet on La Loche Avenue (the main street). </span><span style="text-align: center;">The owners, who lived in the buildings' suite, were awakened by the smoke alarms and called 911. </span><span style="text-align: center;">This popular store, built in the 1980s, sold concession and </span><span style="text-align: center;">novelty items as well as take-out food </span></div>
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The northern village of La Loche in north-west Saskatchewan has an area population of about 3,500 people. The village has two fire trucks and both were in use for this fire </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">A few spectators were there and the La Loche ValuMaster next door was closed for the day along with Ducharme School which is located across the street. The ValuMaster, also owner occupied, sustained smoke damage as well as damage to its north facing wall and roof. Both the school and the business were open the next day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">A new business is under construction next to the La Loche ValuMaster. This ten thousand square foot building will sell groceries and other staples. It will also have living accommodations.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three months later in January of 2015 the La Loche Motel and restaurant burned down. </td></tr>
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In early 1885 Father Fafard had just finished building Notre Dame du Bon Conseil two miles south of Frog Lake in an area of small wooded hills near Lac Clair. Fafard could speak Cree, French and English and regularly taught classes to about twenty children.<br />
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The rectory was a simple log house with a large room which served as kitchen, parlour and classroom. On one side doors opened to a small chapel (which also served as the confessional) and a bedroom for Father Leon Fafard. Upstairs in the attic were three small rooms. Two were in use by Father Felix Marchand who was learning the Cree language and Fafard's lay assistant John Williscroft .<br />
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A dozen feet from the rectory was the recently completed 40 foot long church made of square-cut logs. The church was dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel (''Notre Dame du Bon Conseil'' in French). Beside the church was a timber frame that held the bell. A well, a shed, and a stable completed the site which was surrounded by pole fences.<br />
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Father Fafard was the director of this major mission which included three dependencies; the mission of Saint Louis at Onion Lake founded by Father Felix Marchand in 1884, the St. Raphael mission at Cold Lake (a Chipewyan reserve) with Father Legoff in charge and the Saint Charles mission at Long Lake which was without a priest.<br />
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Two or three hundred feet from the church on a rise were the solid buildings of the Indian Agent. The Hudson's Bay Company post and George Dill's store were nearby. North West Mounted Police occupied a large area with barracks, a supply depot, a blacksmith, stables and other buildings necessary to support the small detachment.<br />
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Two miles west on Frog Creek John Gowanlock was building a grist mill (flour mill) which was almost complete. <a href="http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1483/105.html?qid=peelbib">Map of settlement</a><br />
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Three Wood Cree groups who were mostly Christian formed a reserve which was located nearby.<br />
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In January 1885 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bear">Big Bear</a> and his band of about 20 families camped in the valley of Frog Creek close to the mill. None were Christian. <br />
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In the last months of winter rumours of war came to the small village and on March 28 two representatives of Poundmaker brought to Big Bear a piece of tobacco that he had received from Batoche. The messengers carried news of the uprising and the success at Duck Lake and asked that the Cree unite against their common enemy. A council under Wandering Spirit (Big Bear was absent) deliberated on future plans and then the calumet (pipe) was smoked.<br />
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Around 4:30 in the morning recounts Mrs. Delaney we were awakened by Johnny Pritchard (Quinn's interpretor) and Ayimesis. Ayimesis told my husband the Metis were in revolt and had stolen the horses. He took all the blame since he had danced almost all night with his friends and was asleep at the time<br />
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The church, the rectory and all the buildings of Frog Lake were burned April 4, 1885 (the day before Easter) including Father Marchand's chapel/residence at the St. Louis Mission at Onion Lake . All that remained of the mission of Notre Dame du Bon Conseil (Frog Lake) were the bell tower and the cemetery.</div>
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Before the fires the bodies of the missionaries, Delaney and Gowanlock had been hurriedly placed in the cellar under the church by several Metis while Quinn and Gouin were placed in the cellar of a house near where they were killed. The other victims remained where they died as permission to move them had been denied.<br />
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Father Laurent Legoff the Oblate missionary in charge of the St. Raphael Mission at Cold Lake also wrote that the bell had been taken from the bell tower. General Strange upon learning of the theft blamed the military teamsters. Father Legoff's response was: "Was this an object so small a teamster could just hide it in his back pocket"(translation). The Canadian government later reimbursed the Mission for their lost bell.<br />
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"Our company then presented the town with a large bell that we had brought from Frog Lake, to be used as a fire bell. The bell had belonged to the Roman Catholic Mission at Frog Lake and one dark night two of our lads went and seized the bell and nailing it up in a wooden box had brought it home to Millbrook. The authorities had searched for the bell but could find no trace of it." <a href="http://www.nhb.com/hunter/weyoung.htm">Will E. Young Diary</a></div>
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The rectory was a simple log house with a large room which served as kitchen, parlour and classroom. On one side doors opened to a small chapel (which also served as the confessional) and a bedroom for Father Leon Fafard. Upstairs in the attic were three small rooms. Two were in use by Father Felix Marchand who was learning the Cree language and Fafard's lay assistant John Williscroft .<br />
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A dozen feet from the rectory was the recently completed 40 foot long church made of square-cut logs. The church was dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel (''Notre Dame du Bon Conseil'' in French). Beside the church was a timber frame that held the bell. A well, a shed, and a stable completed the site which was surrounded by pole fences.<br />
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Two or three hundred feet from the church on a rise were the solid buildings of the Indian Agent. The Hudson's Bay Company post and George Dill's store were nearby. North West Mounted Police occupied a large area with barracks, a supply depot, a blacksmith, stables and other buildings necessary to support the small detachment. They left to join Captain Dickens at Fort Pitt before the massacre. The other residents chose not to leave.<br />
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Two miles west on Frog Creek John Gowanlock was building a grist mill (flour mill) which was almost complete. <a href="http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1483/105.html?qid=peelbib">Map of settlement</a><br />
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Survivors of the massacre were <a href="http://members.shaw.ca/bcsk/peoplef/pages/William_Cameron.htm">William Cameron</a> and the wives of two of the slain men Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney.<br />
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''For two months John Pritchard, Solomon, John Jr., Mary Rose, the smaller children, Adolphus Nolin, and the widows were forced to suffer with Big Bear's camp as it moved, first into battle, and then in retreat, through the bush, swamp, snow, rain and mosquitoes of April and May until Big Bear's camp disintegrated and the swaggering painted war chiefs released the prisoners. It should be noted that the Pritchards, Nolin,Cameron, and the J.K. Simpsons were not the only prisoners of Big Bear's unmanageable warriors.They also had as prisoners the Hudson's Bay Company Trader from Fort Pitt, W.J. McLean and his numerous family, one of whom was 8 year old Duncan. In addition they had brought in John Fitzpatrick, the Farming Instructor at Cold Lake, as well as H.R. Halpin, the Hudson's Bay Company Agent and the Rev. Pete LeGoff. From Onion Lake they had George G. Mann, the farming instructor, and his family, and the Anglican Minister, Rev. Chas. Quinney and his family. They had also the rest of the Hudson's Bay Company staff from abandoned and looted Fort Pitt." <a href="http://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/1889/IH-SD.50A.pdf?sequence=1">(source)</a><br />
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<b>"Sarah Riel</b> the sister of Métis leader <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Riel">Louis Riel</a> was born October 11, 1848 in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Boniface,_Manitoba" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="St. Boniface, Manitoba">St. Boniface, Manitoba</a>. She joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Nuns" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Grey Nuns">Grey Nuns</a> as a novice in 1865 and in 1868 became the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tis_people_(Canada)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Métis people (Canada)">Métis</a> Grey Nun from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Colony" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Red River Colony">Red River</a>. She could speak English, French, Cree and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michif" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Michif">Michif</a> and in 1871 was sent to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-%C3%A0-la-Crosse" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Île-à-la-Crosse">Île-à-la-Crosse</a> where her father <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel,_Sr." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Riel, Sr.">Jean-Louis Riel</a> was born. She served in the school and the hospital of the mission until her death of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a> December 27, 1883. She took the name Sister Marguerite-Marie in 1872 and is buried under that name at the cemetery in Île-à-la-Crosse. Her headstone in French reads: <i>Ici Repose Rév. Soeur Marguerite Marie (Riel) Decédée 27 Decembre, 1883, Agée 34 ans, R.I.P. </i> She and her brother Louis Riel wrote to each other while she was alive and letters remain describing their relationship and her life in Île-à-la-Crosse." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Riel">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Riel</a><br />
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Convent life was difficult. On January 8, 1872 Sara wrote to her younger brothers Charles, Joseph and Alexandre from the hospital in Île-à-la-Crosse; "My dear little brothers. Happy New Year! ...to each of you I give a sweet kiss and it is one that is almost frozen because it is cold in this country, I assure you that until today I have woken up freezing, passed the days freezing and went to bed every night freezing. You might all say: will Sister Riel ever warm up this winter......" (my translation) <br />
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The nuns taught school, took care of the sick, worked on the farm and in the gardens and prepared meals from filleting fish to baking bread. The short summers were spent getting ready for the long cold winters. If you couldn't work you were a burden.<br />
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The following lines are from the Ile a la Crosse history book "Sakitawak" .<br />
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<span style="color: #00184a; font-family: Arial, Georgia; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;">"Hours were spent in her duties at the mission. Summer came and went. In late November of 1872, tragedy struck this young woman. Her lungs hemorrhaged while teaching some children singing. Death hovered over Sister Sara. The last Sacrament was given to her and Sara seemed almost happy at approaching death. However, her pastor, Father Legeard, sought to have his patron saint intercede and affect a cure on this young woman. Prayers, and a promise to the saint, created a miracle. At that very moment, Sara rose from her death-bed a cured person. She dressed and went to the chapel, then prayed. Life then started anew, with Sara resuming her Mission duties to the fullest. Sara writes of the miracle to her mother:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Beloved Mama, how glad you would have been to see your child rise up from the dead. The good Lord has been generous...Let us requite love with His love for our family, for having chosen me as first Metis missionary,"</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #00184a; font-family: Arial, Georgia; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;"> That night of the miracle, Sara adopted the name of her benefactoress and was called from that time, Sister Marguerite Marie.</span><br />
<span style="color: #00184a; font-family: Arial, Georgia; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;"> Throughout the long years that came to pass, Louis and sister Marguerite Marie continued to write of their trials and tribulations. Sister Marguerite Marie often talked of her wish that Louis would take to the priesthhood. Then, in April of 1881, Louis married Marguerite Monet, a young Metis girl. The news of this marriage reached Ile-A-La-Crosse and his missionary sister. Sister Marguerite Marie's hopes for his eventual priesthood were shattered. Her letters at this time tell of her deteriorating health and her premonition of approaching death. Then, on the 27th of December, 1883, she died." <a href="http://www.jkcc.com/riel.html">(from Sakitawak a history of Ile a la Crosse)</a></span><br />
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When the Green Lake Post was looted in 1885 during the North-West Rebellion led by Louis Riel the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Nuns" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Grey Nuns">Grey Nuns</a> of Île-à-la-Crosse were terrified that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Riel">Riel</a> who had accused them of letting his younger sister Sister Marguerite-Marie (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Riel" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sara Riel">Sara Riel</a>) die in misery would seek revenge. <a href="http://portagelaloche.blogspot.ca/2013/07/flight-from-ile-la-crosse-1885.html">(see Flight from Île-à-la-Crosse 1885)</a><br />
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"On April 27, 1885 during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Rebellion" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="North-West Rebellion">North-West Rebellion</a> most of the personnel and dependants of the Hudson's Bay Company Post and the Roman Catholic Mission of Île-à-la-Crosse alarmed at the looting of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Green Lake, Saskatchewan">Green Lake Post</a> the previous day fled to a small wooded island north of Patuanak and were helped by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipewyan_people" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chipewyan people">Denesuline</a> of the area. On May 24 the exiles erected a large cross on their island of refuge (now known as Cross Island and returned to Île-à-la-Crosse on May 29" .<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patuanak,_Saskatchewan">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patuanak,_Saskatchewan</a><br />
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Ile a la Crosse in 1885 had a population of about 300 people.<br />
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<span style="color: #260a00; font-family: georgia; line-height: normal;">Isle a la Crosse had a population of 357 people in 61 families in 1906 </span><span style="color: #260a00; font-family: georgia; line-height: normal;">including 49 student boarders at the residential school </span><span style="color: #260a00; font-family: georgia; line-height: normal;">8 nuns, 2 priests, 2 brothers and 2 others at the mission. </span><span style="color: #260a00; font-family: georgia; line-height: normal;">The Hudson's Bay Company post had 20 employees and their families and Revillon Freres had 3 employees. </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/portagelaloche/home/census-1906" style="font-family: georgia; line-height: normal;">La Loche 1906 Census</a><br />
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When in 1905 the Grey Nun's "were replaced by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons France (the black nuns). They stayed only a year because they were unaccustomed to daily hardships: "filletting fish, working on the farm, in the gardens, and taking care of the sick." <a href="http://www.jkcc.com/rcnuns.html">(reference link)</a> <br />
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RIEL, SARA (1848–83)</h1>
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Sara Riel was one of the first Métis women in the Red River region to join the Grey Nuns (Sisters of Charity); she did missionary work for over a decade at Ile-à-la-Crosse in what is now Saskatchewan. Born on October 11, 1848, in St. Boniface, she was the daughter of Jean-<a class="tag" href="http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/riel_louis_david_1844-85.html" style="color: black; line-height: normal; text-transform: uppercase;">LOUIS RIEL</a> and Julie Lagimodière, and the sister of Métis leader Louis Riel; she and her brother were known to have a close relationship and to share religious beliefs. Sara Riel joined the Grey Nuns in the latter 1860s; she relocated in June 1871 to Ile-à-la-Crosse, her father’s birthplace and the family’s ancestral home, and the site of a major missionary effort. She served in the community’s mission, including its school and hospital. Between 1876 and 1880 she became godmother to several of the community’s children. Earlier, in 1872, Sara Riel had suffered from a severe case of pneumonia and was believed to be dying. After being given the Last Sacrament, she experienced a seemingly miraculous full recovery, and later obtained permission to change her name to Sister Marguerite-Marie, in honour of the saint who had been invoked in prayers. Throughout her life, Sara Riel and her brother corresponded; letters remain which speak of their relationship and of her time spent at Ile-à-la-Crosse. She died of tuberculosis on December 27, 1883. (written by <em style="text-align: right;">Cheryl Troupe) </em><a href="http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/riel_sara_1848-83.html" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: right;">http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/riel_sara_1848-83.html</a></div>
RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-32528986265010874322013-07-23T22:58:00.022-07:002020-08-08T16:24:20.862-07:00Flight from Île-à-la-Crosse 1885<b>Stories from the North-West Rebellion </b><br />
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<b>April 1885</b><br />
In a few months the waterways of northern Saskatchewan would be ice free and York boat brigades would again travel to supply the Hudson's Bay Company posts of the Athabasca and Mackenzie River Districts located north of the Methye Portage. It was spring and some swift moving rivers like the Beaver River were relatively free of ice. Open water was beginning to show along some lakes. In the last week of April 1885 rumours of war reached the isolated village of Ile a la Crosse. The village had a population of about 300 people. Most were descendants of French Metis from Red River.<br />
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Ile a la Crosse was the birthplace of Louis Riel Sr. (the father of Louis Riel) in 1817. Sara Riel the sister of Louis Riel died in Ile a la Crosse in 1883. She was 34 years old.<br />
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Roderick Ross the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Factor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chief Factor">Chief Factor</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-%C3%A0-la-Crosse" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Île-à-la-Crosse">Île-à-la-Crosse</a> alarmed by the persistent rumours of war and suspicious of the arrogant attitude of a few of the local <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tis_people_(Canada)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Métis people (Canada)">Métis</a> sent one of his clerks for information. On April 27 the clerk returned with the alarming news that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cree" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cree">Cree</a> rebels were advancing and had already looted the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Green Lake, Saskatchewan">Green Lake</a> Post after having chased away the loyal Métis. The fearful Mr. Ross unable to judge the situation called his clerks and Father Rapet of the Mission together and all agreed to leave immediately. Father Rapet announced this decision to his people who felt that the decision was premature. But the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Nuns" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Grey Nuns">Grey Nuns</a> were terrified that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Riel">Riel</a> who had accused them of letting his younger sister Sister Marguerite-Marie (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Riel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sara Riel">Sara Riel</a>) die in misery would seek revenge. They decided to leave. The animals of the mission were sent to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe_Narrows,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Canoe Narrows, Saskatchewan">Canoe Lake</a>. Precious objects were hidden away. Necessary items were packed in haste. The <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Eucharist" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Holy Eucharist">Holy Eucharist</a> was taken.</div>
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So, like the monks of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> harassed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Barbarian">barbarian</a> hordes, they carried their treasures, statues, relics to far away places so they could be at peace while Brother Némoz stayed alone guarding the mission.</div>
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That first night the large group reached the large sand point where they set up camp. They were cold and wet after crossing the lake however the prudent Mr. Ross ordered that no fire be lit. Not one of the shivering group stopped an old French Canadian who carried log by log an enormous quantity of wood and lit a great fire.</div>
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The next day on April 28 the voyageurs arrived at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_River_(Hudson_Bay)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Churchill River (Hudson Bay)">English River</a> (near Patuanak) and established a permanent camp. Brother Labelle, Brother Marcilly and a few employees of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a> left to take care of the cattle. Several of these employees found themselves on the small sand point when they heard the rifle fire from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_River" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Beaver River">Beaver River</a> the joyous salvos saluting the birth of the Sinclair baby. To the Métis of Île-à-la-Crosse it was a sinister sign of things to come. It was without doubt the last echo of the execution of Father Paquette and his Métis companions who were expected to arrive from Green Lake. Quickly they thought they must bring the news to Mr.. Ross.</div>
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The news brought new terrors to the camp. Several nuns were sick with emotion. They must go further still to be secure. At once they broke up the camp with all the baggage and moved to a small wooded island protected by a double set of rapids and guarded by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipewyan_people" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chipewyan people">Denesuline</a>.<a href="http://portagelaloche.blogspot.ca/2011/08/blog-post.html">....read more at Patuanak's Cross Island</a><br />
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The night of this second move Father Paquette having walked all day over the ice arrived at the fort tired and irritable. The clerk Franklin in pity fed him and dressed him in his own clothes. The missionary stunned to find no one in these large buildings was told of the cause of the exodus of the population.</div>
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The mission was also deserted. Brother Némoz was there and Brother Marcilly coming with the cattle was ready to leave but decided to wait till the next day and bring Father Paquette if he wanted. During his slumber Paquette's feelings of peace and security he felt earlier disappeared replaced by a sudden panic. He told himself "If everyone believes there is danger who am I to pretend there is none". Sitting up suddenly he sees a red glow on the horizon like the reflection of a huge fire. There is no doubt the enemy is coming. Quickly he wakes his companions and tells Brother Marcilly to harness the dogs while he throws bags out of the window. The young men and Brothers in fear run to see what the fuss is all about and Father Paquette points to the sky where the fire was only to see the moon in a red glow. Everyone laughs and return to bed.</div>
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When he had arrived at the Fort Father Paquette had suggested a meeting of all the Metis and Indians of the area and this was done. So the next day on the afternoon of April 30 about 60 men had gathered: Metis, Dene and Cree from Canoe Lake. As Paquette entered the hall he found them arguing with the clerk. Since it was in the interest of the Company that they had to leave their homes and occupations they asked to be fed by the Company during these troubled times. One Metis pretended to have received permission from Clarke and Ross to take whatever they needed from the store. Franklin and Sinclair said it was not true. Father Paquette asked who had authorized it. Angus Mckay he said and Paquette called him a liar. So one Metis said menacingly: "Who would stop us from taking supplies by force since you have refused us?" Eventually the clerk promised to distribute supplies and ammunition to the men so they could feed their families and everyone calmed down.</div>
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So on May 2 three York boats manned by 50 armed men left for Green Lake. Midway they met a couple of Indians who warned them of the danger they might expect on the way. (The rumours were: The warriors of Big Bear were in the vicinity A group of volunteers from Prince Albert had gone to Green Lake and met these warriors and were sent back on foot their horses stolen.) The Metis turned around in fear and returned to Ile a la Crosse announcing that the warriors of Big Bear in all probability would attack the Fort that night. In face of this new danger Father Paquette decided to leave with his two companions to the island of refuge.</div>
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Mr. Ross who was always anxious seeing three strangers coming to the camp ordered one of the guards to fire on them but a Metis never fires without seeing and soon recognized Paquette who had long been awaited.</div>
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The story of Paquette and his news reawakened the fears of the refugees. Mr. Ross fearing that the Indians and the Metis of Ile a la Crosse would help the warriors of Big Bear begged Father Rapet and Father Dauphin to go preach peace and loyalty to the Queen to them. The two missionaries found the Fort in perfect calm and the two clerks on best terms with the people. They had but to give a little wise advice. Father Dauphin thinking that his presence would be helpful at the mission refused to return to the island of refuge. Mass was begun in the parish church and the exercises of May the month of Mary were done every night. Persuaded that there was no longer any danger he advised the defenders of Ile a la Crosse to return to their homes and occupations.<br />
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On May 24 the exiles erected a large cross on their island of refuge (now known as Cross Island and returned to Île-à-la-Crosse on May 29 when the lake was safe to cross after the ice break-up</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">Distances over the ice and portages from Ile a la Crosse to Cross Island = 42 miles or 67.5 km<br />Ile a la Crosse to Sandy Point (the first of several possible sandy points) = 4,5m or 7.5km <br />Sandy Point to Patuanak = 30m or 48km<br />Patuanak to Cross Island = 7.8m or 12.5km<br /><br />Co-ordinates for;<br />Ile a la Crosse <span face="" style="color: #4285f4; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: underline;">55.436980, -107.895435</span><br />Sandy Point (the first of several possible sandy points) <span face="" style="color: #4285f4; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: underline;">55.467419, -107.796069</span><br /><footer class="replyforwardcontainer">Patuanak <span face="" style="color: #4285f4; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: underline;">55.911812, -107.716891</span></footer><footer class="replyforwardcontainer">Cross Island <span face="" style="color: #4285f4; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: underline;">55.996155, -107.674286</span></footer></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><br />
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RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-23219712883795819172013-07-21T17:25:00.003-07:002020-07-28T22:29:14.360-07:00The Looting of Green Lake in 1885<div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">
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On April 26, 1885 a group of armed militants arrived to claim the contents of the Green Lake Post.<br />
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Green Lake is a village of 418 people in Saskatchewan a half hour drive north of the city of Meadow Lake.<br />
A Hudson's Bay Post called Green Lake House was located there. It was an important depot for the movement of supplies to the far north and was connected to Fort Carlton by an a ox-cart trail built in 1875-76.<br />
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At the time of the North-West Rebellion the Green Lake post was waiting for the ice to break on the northern lakes so that the stockpile of goods in their warehouses could be safely sent up the Beaver River to Ile a la Crosse across the Methye Portage to the Clearwater River and to the Athabasca and Mackenzie River Districts.<br />
Within these warehouses were a years supply of goods destined for these northern posts. They included arms and ammunition in the form of lead shot and balls, 286 barrels of powder and 200 rifles.<br />
On April 26, 1885 a group of armed militants arrived to claim the contents of the buildings. However the factor of Green Lake House James Sinclair had been warned by the Oblate priest Father Mélasyppe Paquette and taken steps to protect the property of the Hudson's Bay Company. This is an account of the events at Green Lake in 1885..<br />
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The looting of Green Lake House</h2>
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<b>April 25, 1885</b><br />
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Father Mélasyppe Paquette <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.M.I." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="O.M.I.">O.M.I.</a> arrived in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Green Lake, Saskatchewan">Green Lake</a> and found the locals ready to fight and die for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Riel">Riel</a>. He talked to them and even threatened <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Excommunication">excommunication</a> to all those who would fight for Riel. Having been persuaded they all left the post so as not to meet the rebels that could come at any time. Paquette also met with James Sinclair at the Hudson's Bay Post and told him all that happened since he left <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Laurent_de_Grandin,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="St. Laurent de Grandin, Saskatchewan">Saint Laurent</a> on the 18 of March. James Sinclair who was in charge of all the merchandise held there for the Mackenzie District had no doubt his post would soon be pillaged by the rebels. He immediately gave the order to submerge into the lake all the lead balls and shot and loaded four York boats with 286 barrels of powder and 200 rifles along with a large quantity of stock and sent the brigade that night towards <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ile_a_la_Crosse" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ile a la Crosse">Ile a la Crosse</a>.<br />
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The next morning on April 26 he loaded the rest of his men and their families along with the missionary and his companions on another boat. As they were ready to leave the shore 25 Cree from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Loon Lake, Saskatchewan">Loon Lake</a> stopped them. Sinclair was taken prisoner but the others were let go to continue on their way. So were the orders coming from Riel.</div>
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From Sinclair they demanded food saying they were starving but their demands did not stop there. They started breaking boxes, untying bales, cutting open bags of sugar and flour with their knives taking whatever pleased them and destroying the rest. This act of vandalism it is said cost the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a> the enormous sum of $40,000.00.</div>
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While the post was being looted Sinclair managed to slip away from his guards and fled by canoe with two Metis men from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Carlton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fort Carlton">Fort Carlton</a>. As they were escaping one of the looters by the name of Makesis shot at Sinclair but his life was saved when his aim was broken by the chief to whom he had earlier given a pair of embroidered gloves.</div>
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Meanwhile the four other boats continued their trip to Ile a la Crosse in the cold and rain. On the third day while they camped on the side of the river Mrs. Sinclair gave birth to a girl who was baptised immediately by Father Paquette. Mr. Sinclair who had joined them rejoiced and the Metis decided it was a good time to celebrate. Since they had 6,000 pounds of powder with them they used some of it to fire their rifles into the air 300 times after which Sinclair gave them a "regale" (a dram of rum?).<br />
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<b>Note: </b>The discharge of weapons was heard by men from Ile a la Crosse. This caused much concern in that village as they too had heard of the events further south and had already begun the evacuation of the Mission and the H.B.C. post...<br />
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"The looting of Green Lake House" is loosely translated from the following book. (translated by Raymond Dauvin)</div>
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<a href="http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/search/?index=peelbib&search=follow&pageNumber=1&authordisplay=%22Le+Chevallier%2C+Jules+Jean+Marie+Joseph%22&sort=score" style="background-color: #eaeadb; border: 0px; color: #821f82; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Le Chevallier, Jules Jean Marie Joseph</a><span style="background-color: #eaeadb; color: #413f31; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;"> (1876-1952) </span><a href="http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/author/1482.html?rank=1" style="background-color: #eaeadb; border: 0px; color: #821f82; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[info]</a><span style="background-color: #eaeadb; color: #413f31; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;">. </span><em style="background-color: #eaeadb; border: 0px; color: #413f31; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="title" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aux prises avec le tourmente: les missionnaires de la colonie de Saint-Laurent-de-Grandin durant l'insurrection métisse de 1885</span></em><span style="background-color: #eaeadb; color: #413f31; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;">. Ottawa: [Revue de l'Université d'Ottawa], 1940. .</span><br />
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RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-81021928696949570962013-04-14T14:58:00.000-07:002013-07-26T22:15:43.212-07:00Dene/Chipewyan Statistics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dene children in La Loche, Saskatchewan in the 1940s</h4>
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The Dene Suline language or the Chipewyan language </div>
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Approximately 11,000 of the 11,860 people who chose Dene as their mother tongue in the 2011 Canada Census are Dene/Chipewyan from the historical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipewyan_people" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chipewyan people">Chipewyan</a> regions south and east of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Slave_Lake" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Great Slave Lake">Great Slave Lake</a>. 7,955 or 72% were in Saskatchewan, 1,005 were in Manitoba, 510 plus urban dwellers in Alberta and 260 plus urban dwellers in the Northwest Territories.<br />
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The communities within the Dene/Chipewyan traditional areas are shown below:<br />
La Loche and the adjoining village of Clearwater River have the largest concentration of Dene Suline speakers in Canada with 3,020 or 27% of the total.<br />
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Most of Dene (Dene Suline) speaking communities of Saskatchewan are located in the northern half of the province. The area from the upper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_River_(Hudson_Bay)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Churchill River (Hudson Bay)">Churchill River</a> west of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinehouse_Lake" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pinehouse Lake">Pinehouse Lake</a> all the way north to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Athabasca" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lake Athabasca">Lake Athabasca</a> and from Lake Athabasca east to the north end of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer_Lake" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Reindeer Lake">Reindeer Lake</a> is home to 7410 people who chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</div>
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3,050 were in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Athabasca" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lake Athabasca">Lake Athabasca</a>-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fond_du_Lac_River_(Saskatchewan)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fond du Lac River (Saskatchewan)">Fond du Lac River</a> area including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lake_(Fond_du_Lac_River,_Saskatchewan)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black Lake (Fond du Lac River, Saskatchewan)">Black Lake</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaston_Lake" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wollaston Lake">Wollaston Lake</a> in the communities of:<br />
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19% <span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">of the Dene/Chipewyan speaking population of Canada live in Fond du Lac, Stony Rapids and Black Lake.</span></h4>
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12% <span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">of the Dene/Chipewyan speaking population of Canada live in Wollaston Lake. </span></h4>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fond-du-Lac,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fond-du-Lac, Saskatchewan">Fond-du-Lac</a> 705 out of 874 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Rapids,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan">Stony Rapids</a> 140 out of 243 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black Lake, Saskatchewan">Black Lake (Chicken 224)</a> 1040 out of 1070 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_City,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Uranium City, Saskatchewan">Uranium City</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camsell_Portage,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Camsell Portage, Saskatchewan">Camsell Portage</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaston_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan">Wollaston Lake</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaston_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan">Wollaston Post</a> (Lac La Hache 220) 1165 out of 1251 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
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3,090 were in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearwater_River_(Saskatchewan)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Clearwater River (Saskatchewan)">Clearwater River</a> area including <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_La_Loche" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lac La Loche">Lac La Loche</a>, Descharme Lake, Garson Lake and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnor_Lake_(Saskatchewan)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Turnor Lake (Saskatchewan)">Turnor Lake</a> in the communities of:</h4>
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39% <span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">of the Dene/Chipewyan speaking population of Canada live in the villages on this map of the Upper Churchill River.</span></h4>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Loche,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="La Loche, Saskatchewan">La Loche</a> 2,300 out 2,611 chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearwater_River_Dene_Nation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Clearwater River Dene Nation">Clearwater River</a> 720 out of 778 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Point,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black Point, Saskatchewan">Black Point</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Creek,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bear Creek, Saskatchewan">Bear Creek</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garson_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Garson Lake, Saskatchewan">Garson Lake</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descharme_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Descharme Lake, Saskatchewan">Descharme Lake</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnor_Lake,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Turnor Lake, Saskatchewan">Turnor Lake</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_Narrows_First_Nation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Birch Narrows First Nation">Birch Narrows First Nation</a>) 70 out of 419 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
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830 were in the upper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_River_(Hudson_Bay)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Churchill River (Hudson Bay)">Churchill River</a> area including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pond_Lake" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Peter Pond Lake">Peter Pond Lake</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_Lake" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Churchill Lake">Churchill Lake</a> in the communities of:<br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dillon, Saskatchewan">Dillon</a> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_River_Dene_Nation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Buffalo River Dene Nation">Buffalo River Dene Nation</a>) 330 out of 764 chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George%27s_Hill,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="St. George's Hill, Saskatchewan">St. George's Hill, Saskatchewan</a> 85 out of 100 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Village,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Michel Village, Saskatchewan">Michel Village</a> 55 out of 66 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Narrows,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan">Buffalo Narrows</a> 35 out of 1153 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patuanak,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Patuanak, Saskatchewan">Patuanak</a> 35 out of 64 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patuanak,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Patuanak, Saskatchewan">Patuanak (Wapachewunak 1920)</a> 265 out of 482 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauval,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Beauval, Saskatchewan">Beauval (La Plonge 192)</a> 25 out of 115 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
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<b>Manitoba</b></h3>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_Brochet,_Manitoba" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lac Brochet, Manitoba">Lac Brochet (197 A)</a> 720 out of 816 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadoule_Lake,_Manitoba" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tadoule Lake, Manitoba">Tadoule Lake (Churchill 1)</a> 170 out of 321 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
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<b>Alberta</b></h3>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chipewyan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fort Chipewyan">Fort Chipewyan</a> 45 out of 847 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McKay" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fort McKay">Fort McKay</a> 30 out of 562 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janvier,_Alberta" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Janvier, Alberta">Janvier</a> (Janvier 194) 145 out of 295 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janvier_South" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Janvier South">Janvier South</a> 35 out of 104 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cold Lake 149) 105 out of 594 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cold Lake 149 B) 25 out of 149 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
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<b>Northwest Territories</b></h3>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Smith" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fort Smith">Fort Smith</a> 30 out of 2093 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Resolution" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fort Resolution">Fort Resolution</a> 95 out of 474 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutselk%27e" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lutselk'e">Lutselk'e</a> 120 out of 295 residents chose Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.</li>
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The Dene/Chipewyan and the caribou</h3>
The Dene/Chipewyan followed the caribou herds. The map below shows caribou migrations and in red are archaeological sites. <a href="http://http-server.carleton.ca/~bgordon/Spatial/Intro/Context.htm">read more</a> visit the <a href="http://http-server.carleton.ca/~bgordon/Spatial/Site_Map.htm">Site map</a><br />
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RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-4593505802328240782012-12-07T23:08:00.001-08:002012-12-15T12:59:14.409-08:00Imhoff of St. Walburg<br />
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<i>The paintings of Count Berthold von Imhoff </i></h2>
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<a href="http://www.ndstudies.org/media/prairie_churches_count_berthold_von_imhoff_part_1">Imhoff video part 1</a></div>
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Berthold Imhoff</h2>
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<li style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Abel, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">Born: <span class="bold" style="border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1868. Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg DE</span></li>
<li style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Abel, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">Died: <span class="bold" style="border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1939. St. Walburg, SK</span></li>
<li style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Abel, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">Mediums: <span class="bold" style="border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Drawing, Murals, Oil Painting</span></li>
<li style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Abel, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">Galleries: <span class="bold" style="border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sknac.ca/index.php?page=GalleryDetail&id=26" style="border: 0px; color: #852a2c; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Imhoff Gallery (St. Walburg)</a></span></li>
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<span class="style1" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: start;">Holy Rosary Church -</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">St. Joseph's Colony, Saskatchewan</span></td></tr>
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<li style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Abel, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">"Count Berthold Von Imhoff, a German immigrant to St. Walburg, Sask., painted exquisite religious murals and frescoes in churches across the province from 1913 to 1939. He transformed sparse walls and ceilings into works of art. Most of the time, he didn't charge the poor parishes for his expensive materials or labour. In this CBC Radio interview, Imhoff enthusiast Ray Penner discusses how Imhoff made the prairie churches of Saskatchewan his masterpiece."</span></li>
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Examples of his work can be seen at the following locations.</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Imhoff Museum and Art Gallery near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Walburg,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="St. Walburg, Saskatchewan">St. Walburg, Saskatchewan</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-8" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading,_Pennsylvania" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Reading, Pennsylvania">Reading, Pennsylvania</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-9" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">St. Peter's Cathedral in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muenster,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Muenster, Saskatchewan">Muenster, Saskatchewan</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-10" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Shrine of the Holy Rosary at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Reward, Saskatchewan">Reward, Saskatchewan</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-11" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Our Lady of Sorrows in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Hill,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Paradise Hill, Saskatchewan">Paradise Hill, Saskatchewan</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-12" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Assumption Catholic Church in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marysburg,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Marysburg, Saskatchewan">Marysburg, Saskatchewan</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-13" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloydminster,_Saskatchewan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Lloydminster, Saskatchewan">Lloydminster, Saskatchewan</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-14" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Salem United Church in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oley_Township,_Berks_County,_Pennsylvania" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania">Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-15" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe,_North_Dakota" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Karlsruhe, North Dakota">Karlsruhe, North Dakota</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-16" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">St. Mary's Catholic Church in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague,_North_Dakota" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Hague, North Dakota">Hague, North Dakota</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-17" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[17]</a></sup></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">First United Church of Christ in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading,_Pennsylvania" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Reading, Pennsylvania">Reading, Pennsylvania</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Imhoff#cite_note-18" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial; white-space: nowrap;">[18]</a></sup></li>
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RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-36341348985300780752012-11-09T22:46:00.000-08:002019-08-03T21:18:35.147-07:00Inuit of Pangnirtung, Nunavut..1953-1958 <br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Photos by Geoffrey Secord.</span></span></h2>
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More photos taken by Geoffrey Secord while he served as a doctor from 1953 to 1958 in Pangnirtung can be viewed on the following site.</div>
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<a name='more'></a><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"><br />Pangnirtung</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> (or </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">Pang</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, also </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">Pangniqtuuq</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, in syllabics: ᐸᖕᓂᖅᑑᖅ) is an </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial;" title="Inuit">Inuit</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial;" title="Hamlet (place)">hamlet</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qikiqtaaluk_Region" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial;" title="Qikiqtaaluk Region">Qikiqtaaluk Region</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, in the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_territory" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial;" title="Canadian territory">Canadian territory</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial;" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, located on </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baffin_Island" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial;" title="Baffin Island">Baffin Island</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">. T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">he population was 1,325 in 2006, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">Pangnirtung</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> is situated on a coastal plain at the coast of Pangnirtung Fjord, a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjord" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial;" title="Fjord">fjord</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> which eventually merges with </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Sound" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial;" title="Cumberland Sound">Cumberland Sound</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangnirtung">...read more.</a></span></td></tr>
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Photos from the Geoffrey Secord collection </h1>
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1953</div>
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1955</div>
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1953-1958, [ca. 1970], 1983</div>
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30 cm of graphic material and textual record. - ca. 240 kodachrome slides : col. and b&w. - 3 maps. - 8 books. - 24 negatives : b&w ; 10 x 6 cm</div>
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Thematically by item type, chronologically within type.</div>
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Geoff Secord was a doctor in the Northwest Territories from 1953-1955.</div>
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Collection comprises photographic material, weather graphs, correspondence, maps, and publications relating to the Canadian Northern Arctic. All material was collected by Geoff Secord between 1953-1955 during his time in the Arctic.</div>
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Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre</div>
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Donated by Geoff Secord to the SRSC in July 2012. SRSC agreed to provide digital copies of all the material once it was scanned. The SRSC will also look into having the Inuktitut language material translated. If successful in translating material - SRSC will provide translations to Geoff.</div>
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Basic conversation performed during processing.</div>
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<br />RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-34436708007940635912012-10-05T14:54:00.000-07:002014-11-20T13:33:07.286-08:00Oilsand Quest sold to Cenovus<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21.316667556762695px;">The remaining assets of Oilsands Quest sold for $10 million.</span><br />
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Oil Sands Quest spent hundreds of millions during its years of exploration in Saskatchewan.<br />
<a href="http://portagelaloche.blogspot.ca/2012/01/oilsands-quest-for-sale.html">read previous blog entry: Oilsands Quest for sale</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=10fd8b9f-a979-4ef5-b5ab-6bc065db4212&sponsor=">(see also) Oilsands Quest 2007 native road blockade.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1096791/000113031909000231/o54837fwfwp.htm">(see also) $349 million raised since 2004 (Corporate overview April 29,2009)</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"> Oilsands Quest leases in orange. <a href="http://www.oilsandsquest.com/investor_information/news_releases.html">read more....Oilsands Quest Timeline</a><br />
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Cenovus Energy Inc. sent out this press release October 2, 2012.<br />
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An agreement by Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX, NYSE: CVE) to purchase the remaining assets of Oilsands Quest for $10 million received approval from the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench today. The majority of the assets are located adjacent to Cenovus’s proposed Telephone Lake oil sands project in northern Alberta.</div>
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“We are pleased to acquire these assets at such a reasonable price,” said John Brannan, Cenovus Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer. “This is a good bolt-on acquisition that has the potential to add value to one of Cenovus’s next big emerging oil sands projects.”</div>
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The acquisition includes three oil sands leases, covering approximately 59,000 hectares in Alberta and Saskatchewan, that adjoin Cenovus’s Telephone Lake property. Late last year, Cenovus submitted a joint regulatory application and environmental impact assessment for an initial 90,000 barrel per day project at Telephone Lake. Ultimately, the company expects Telephone Lake will become another cornerstone project like Foster Creek or Christina Lake, Cenovus’s two producing oil sands assets.</div>
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The acquisition also includes a 34,000 hectare oil shale lease in east-central Saskatchewan, as well as various surface assets, such as a work camp and assorted vehicles and equipment. It does not include any of Oilsands Quest’s corporate assets or shares. The acquisition is expected to close on or about October 12, 2012. Before entering creditor protection (under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act) last November, Oilsands Quest was an early-stage oil sands exploration company. The purchase and sale agreement for the company’s assets was signed with Ernst & Young, the court-appointed monitor overseeing Oilsands Quest’s liquidation.</div>
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FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION</div>
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This news release contains certain forward-looking statements and other information (collectively “forward-looking information”) about our current expectations, estimates and projections, made in light of our experience and perception of historical trends. Forward-looking information in this news release is identified by words such as “potential” and “expect”, or similar expressions and includes suggestions of future outcomes, including statements about our Telephone Lake property and its potential growth strategy and expected future production, including the timing, stability or growth thereof. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information as our actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied.</div>
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Developing forward-looking information involves reliance on a number of assumptions and consideration of certain risks and uncertainties, some of which are specific to Cenovus and others that apply to the industry generally. For information on the factors or assumptions on which the forward-looking information is based and the risk factors and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially, see “Advisory” in our 2012 Second Quarter Report or Management’s Discussion & Analysis. For a full discussion of our material risk factors, see “Risk Factors” in our most recent AIF/Form 40-F, “Risk Management” in our current MD&A and risk factors described in other documents we file from time to time with securities regulatory authorities, all of which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, EDGAR at www.sec.gov and our website at<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cenovus.com&esheet=50427865&lan=en-US&anchor=www.cenovus.com&index=1&md5=7b4444ecac1d7e3d3a7307b7935a1236" style="color: #3366cd; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">www.cenovus.com</a>.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cenovus Energy Inc.</b></div>
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Cenovus Energy Inc. is a Canadian oil company. It is committed to applying fresh, progressive thinking to safely and responsibly unlock energy resources the world needs. Operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, which use specialized methods to drill and pump the oil to the surface, and established natural gas and oil production in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The company also has 50% ownership in two U.S. refineries. Cenovus shares trade under the symbol CVE, and are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges. Its enterprise value is approximately $30 billion. For more information, visit<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cenovus.com%2F&esheet=50427865&lan=en-US&anchor=www.cenovus.com&index=2&md5=4c5df710d91267d7c2cf133ff4c99ce1" style="color: #3366cd; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">www.cenovus.com</a></div>
<a href="http://www.cenovus.com/news/news-releases/2012/1002-oilsands-quest-assets.pdf">http://www.cenovus.com/news/news-releases/2012/1002-oilsands-quest-assets.pdf</a><br />
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Who is Cenovus Energy? <br />
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The following wikipedia article has some information.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenovus_Energy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenovus_Energy</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.oilsandsquest.com/pdf/Hope_lives_for_Saskatchewan_oil_sands.pdf">http://www.oilsandsquest.com/pdf/Hope_lives_for_Saskatchewan_oil_sands.pdf</a><br />
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<br />RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-67059849017579517512012-08-25T15:59:00.002-07:002018-01-04T00:01:36.055-08:00Father Mathieu's dog team 1950's La Loche<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Father Bertrand Mathieu and his dog team in 1955 La Loche. The Mission of La Loche included La Loche, Garson Lake, Descharme Lake, Turnor Lake, Bull's House and West La Loche. Visiting these small villages regularly was Father Mathieu's responsibility. (Photos from Canada Archives)</div>
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<li> Father Bertrand Mathieu o.m.i. (ordained in 1949) arrived in La Loche in 1950 and served until 1986.
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/portagelaloche/home?pli=1">.....History of La Loche</a></li>
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This trip from La Loche to Clear Lake and back is a 200 miles trip over the frozen lakes. Returning via Island Lake (Turnor <span style="text-align: left;">Lake) would have been a 150 mile trip on a less travelled overland route.</span></div>
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The route followed by Father Mathieu's dog team began in La Loche, to Dillon, to Buffalo Narrows then to Clear Lake. On his way to Island Lake (Turnor Lake) he was forced to turn back and return to Buffalo Narrows then went back to La Loche. Ile a la Crosse where the regional hospital was located is south of Buffalo Narrows..<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Loche,_Saskatchewan">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Loche,_Saskatchewan</a></div>
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Another trip by dog team sees Father Mathieu going to West La Loche then having to run behind the team back to La Loche. West La Loche is about 8 miles over the ice from the La Loche Mission (a 16 mile trek not 26 miles as stated).</div>
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Dog houses on the mission grounds circa 1950. They were fed on a diet of fish.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Dog team pulling a cutter that I used in town to distribute Communion, or to give a ride to the nurses who needed to go and help a sick person." wrote Father Mathieu. (<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Reprinted from Catholic Missions In Canada Magazine, Fall 2009.)</span></td></tr>
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Father Bertrand Mathieu, O.M.I., is shown in photo leading his dog team in magazine spread titled "Canada's Northland," featuring photo by Rosemary Gilliat. Clipping courtesy of Father Bertrand Mathieu, O.M.I. </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">https://www.facebook.com/pg/canadianmissions/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10150332406280948</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Fox, my faithful companion in my walks and a very good leader of my dog "<br />
wrote Father Mathieu. (<a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="async" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.ca%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3SDcAAAAMAAJ&h=ATOVO_2PidtmPTaAgQaRgf4_4P5MoED4OL7ML_tdJPwkJFOvyG5VDHfFSYdElkqmbrNY_QlnC3k3cHnSM9exOohBC32rDVEfgq7uFLJmv4p6mzyPxoJKrDl0MDPAcB8nZVl_zAc75Zf1UNVeFk7xPJ0mvxEWJpqeOxswcDsys7M84w_IIWJERRasswJNySYr4j6hy6wWQYuYGGSJquCgd2UD5b6zP8NPpMEoEEA-3eLNgw66w87Ql4rVfAt98Pl1ldSlOjo1TdKvtpCUea6qBxayuZk" href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=3SDcAAAAMAAJ" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://books.google.ca/books?id=3SDcAAAAMAAJ</a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Arctic Journal II: A Time for Change - Page 156 --Bern Will Brown - 1999 - Snippet view</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">The next day I chartered the Cessna float plane belonging to local bush pilot Milt McDougall to fly us over to Portage La Loche for a visit. Father Ber</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">trand Mathieu, the missionary in charge there, had visited us during the winter with his fine dog team. He certainly took good care of them, as I could see on this visit. He had their chains hooked onto long overhead wires leading from their houses down into the lake so that they could get fresh water or even take a swim any time they wanted. There were a dozen Grey Nuns at this mission and they gave us a tour of their facilities during a perfect afternoon. ...(Bern Will Brown and pilot Milt McDougall were from Fort McMurray))</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">In 1958 Father Mathieu cuts his beard and takes a motorcycle trip to Buffalo Narrows over the sixty mile ice road on Lac La Loche and Peter Pond Lake. It takes him six hours. A gravel road was built to La Loche in 1963.<br />
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from this blog .....<a href="http://portagelaloche.blogspot.ca/2012/02/metis-dog-blankets.html">read more ....Dog teams and dogs</a><br />
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<b>La Loche in the 1950's as shown in the writings of the missionaries and the students of the school.</b><br />
<b>In this issue of "The Great Portage" in 1959, a La Loche community newsletter: </b><b>The church gets electricity. The school gets a new furnace. There is a plane crash in Garson Lake. There are weddings and births. There are TB clinics. A road is getting built to the village. (downloaded from: </b><a href="http://archives.algomau.ca/drupal6/search/apachesolr_search/la%20loche">http://archives.algomau.ca/drupal6/search/apachesolr_search/la%20loche</a>)<br />
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"FISHING A SPORT?--NOT HERE<br />
Fishing in winter can hardly be considered a sport. It<br />
is rather hard work which deserves better than an 8 cent<br />
cheque after a season of it." (written in 1947 by a student of Ile a la Crosse School)<br />
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"This is how we do it. We<br />
make a hole in the ice about<br />
3 by 3 feet. Then we tie the<br />
fishing line to a jigger<br />
which we shove through the<br />
hole under ice. We push the<br />
line , a jerk at a time , until<br />
the jigger is 50 yards away .<br />
Exactly opposite we cut a<br />
second hole, pull out the jigger, untie the line and fasten it on to one end of the<br />
net. Then the net is pulled<br />
under the ice to the first<br />
hole and fastened there to<br />
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"Every two or three days ,<br />
we visit our nets, generally<br />
with a dog team. Some use<br />
horses. The amount of fish<br />
we catch depends on the season and the weather-- we can<br />
depend very little on either.<br />
The average catch includes<br />
pickerel, sunfish, Jackfish,<br />
whitefish and a :few salmon<br />
trout which weigh up to 26<br />
pounds . . ."<br />
"Some times we are very dis-<br />
appointed not to find anything<br />
(but suckers) in our nets,<br />
whilst on other days , we pick<br />
off as many as a hundred big<br />
" fellers"--the poor fish~"<br />
Raymond Ayotte (VIII)<br />
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<b>Raymond Ayotte was a grade 8 students at Ile a la Crosse School in 1947 when he wrote this story.</b><br />
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Raymond Ayotte was born March 28, 1932 in Ile a la Crosse.<br />
"Louis Roy Ayotte (his dad) owned a store, cafe, and pool hall in Ile a La Crosse. It was the local gathering place. Raymond Ayotte (his son) remembers him building barges and hauling freight and selling the wood when they arrived up to Ile a la Crosse. He sold the business to Jules Marion the MLA for the liberal government for cash." <a href="http://metis.tripod.com/roys.html">http://metis.tripod.com/roys.html</a><br />
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<b>from "Island Breeze" ....December 1947 (Ile a la Crosse newspaper)</b></div>
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Photos taken on Churchill Lake or <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Shagwena Lake </span>by Patuanak are from the following site.<br />
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The following two photos belonging to this set were taken March 1955 on Churchill Lake or <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Shagwena Lake</span> near Patuanak.<br />
(search: Buffalo Narrows at)<br />
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'Ice fishing' ~ (Dene) ~ Patuanak, Sask 1955 Photo: Rosemary Eaton [LAC] --- <a href="https://www.facebook.com/candyce.paul?fref=ufi">Marius Paul</a> commented on facebook that this is on <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Shagwena Lake.</span></div>
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<br />RD Lalochehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02978816178338994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2720804985568633662.post-59657731375434084522012-08-19T19:02:00.001-07:002018-05-15T09:06:35.186-07:00Tanning moose hide in 1947<div style="text-align: right;">
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"The women punched holes around the hide to tie it to the frame which they stood upright against 2 trees. With a sharp bone, they scraped off the fur on one side, the flesh from underneath and let it stand for a night." (La Loche circa 1944)</div>
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"FROM MOOSE TO MOCASSINS"<br />
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"Last summer while I was staying at Pachuanak with my father, I was interested in<br />
watching the women transform a moose's hide into beaded moccasins. <br />
This is how they did it." (written in 1947 by a student of Ile a la Crosse School)<br />
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"The men had killed a moose - a rare event these past years -- and brought the hide home to their women who immediately soaked it in a tub of water so that it would not harden before they worked on it. The men also made a frame with four poles -- and their task was ended."<br />
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"The women punched holes around the hide to tie it to the frame which they stood<br />
upright against 2 trees. With a sharp bone, they scraped off the fur on one side,<br />
the flesh from underneath and let it stand for a night."<br />
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The next day they removed the hide from the frame and rubbed it on both sides with the brains of the moose which the men had saved. This takes<br />
the place of oil, I was told. It was then left to dry in the sun for a few days.<br />
When it was dry, they soaked it again in water to soften it.<br />
They took the hide to the bush, hung it over a<br />
strong branch, and wrung it with a stick, turning it over<br />
and over until not a drop of water could be squeezed out of it.<br />
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While the skin was drying, the women scraped it <span style="text-align: center;">and beat it with covers of</span><br />
pails to make it fuzzy and soft on both sides. It was now ready to be tanned.<br />
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They sewed the skin together lengthwise, leaving both ends open.<br />
With three sticks they built a tepee, suspended the skin inside<br />
and made a fire with rotten wood directly beneath it. <br />
The smoke which curled in and out of the roll of skin, tanned it to a golden color.<br />
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Finally they cut out the mocassins according to a simple pattern of their own. <br />
Some sewed on the colored beads , scarce and expensive since the war, <br />
while others embroidered the floral designs which they<br />
had traced on the skin with a little stick dipped in a red<br />
solution made with a piece of crepe paper.<br />
What patient labour it required -- definitely a woman's work"~ <br />
Florence Ahenakew (IX)<br />
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"They took the hide to the bush, hung it over a strong branch, and wrung it with a stick, turning it over and over until not a drop of water could be squeezed out of it."<br />
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<b>Florence Ahenakew was a grade 9 student at Ile a la Crosse School in 1947 when she wrote this story. She was born on June 7, 1929. Her father was Alexander Ahenakew, the H.B.C. post manager of the Pine River Post .</b><a href="http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/biographical/a/ahenakew_alexander.pdf">....read more</a><br />
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<b>Copied from 'Island Breeze' ....December 1947 (Ile a la Crosse newspaper)</b></div>
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The black and white photos on this page were taken in the 1940's in La Loche, Saskatchewan.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">The boy is Robert Guetre (1940?). </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Elizabeth (Robert's mother) is the lady on the left. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Father </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Ducharme on the left. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Isabelle (Velner) Janvier (grandmother of Pauline (Janvier) Fontaine) </span></div>
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