An edition of History of the Catholic Church in western Canada
(1910)
History of the Catholic Church in western Canada
from Lake Superior to the Pacific (1659-1895), Volume 1
by Adrien Gabriel Morice
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. I
CHAPTER I.
THE PEOPLE AND THE FUR TRADE.
1659-1727.
The aborigines — Their manners and religion — Radisson and Desgroseillers — First contact — Foundation of the Hudson's Bay Company — The Western Sea — First establishment 1
CHAPTER II.
HERALDS OF THE CROSS.
1727-1736.
Laverendrye — Setting out for the West— Forts St. Pierre and St. Charles — Pecuniary difficulties — Father Aulneau — Bourassa and the Sioux — Massacre of the Lake of the Woods 15
CHAPTER III.
PROGRESS AND DECLINE.
1736-1755.
Consequences of the massacre — Resumption of discoveries — Fort la Reine and its chaplain — Results of Lavlrendrye's activities — De Noyelle — Death of Lavlrendrye — Le gardeur de St. Pierre and his chaplain — Getting rid of the Assiniboines 33
CHAPTER IV.
AN EPOCH OF TRANSITION.
1756-1810.
The Coureurs de bois and the halfbreeds — First English-speaking traders — The Northwest Company — Influence of the French on the natives — John Macdonell and the Hudson's Bay Company 53
CHAPTER V.
THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT.
1811-1815.
Miles Macdoneil and the Red River Settlement — Mr. Bourke — Some more colonists — Hostility of the halfbieeds — Protective measures of the Governor — First conflicts 65
CHAPTER VI.
A CLOUDBURST WITH ULTIMATELY GOOD RESULTS.
1816-1817.
New Conflicts — The Battle of Seven Oaks — Death of Governor Semple — Wrongs on both sides — Lord Selkirk to the rescue — The need of religion — Tabeau and his mission — A permanent post decided on 79
CHAPTER VII.
FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH OF ST. BONIFACE.
1818-1820.
Rev. Mr. Provencher — Directions and commendations — Going west — Arrival at "The Forks" — The situation there — First churches and schools — Opposition — Successes. 95
CHAPTER VIII.
THE FIRST BISHOP OF THE WEST.
1821-1829.
Provencher appointed bishop — Difficulties concerning Pembina — St. Francois - Xavier founded — Dumoulin returns east — Schools and college — The education of girls — New priests — Good citizenship recognized 113
CHAPTER IX.
THE FIRST INDIAN MISSIONS.
1830-1839.
The stone cathedral — The Indians and Mr. Belcourt — Trials and reverses — The assault on Larocque — Belcourt intervenes — Arrival of Mr. Thibault and other missionaries — Belcourt's activities 132
CHAPTER X.
THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA.
1899-1843
The first Council of Assiniboia — Provencher and industry — Belcourt and his indifferent charge — Protestant rivalry — Indian tale — Rev. Mr. Darveau — John Rowand and the first missionary of the western prairies — The Blackfeet 151
CHAPTER XI.
DEATH OF DARVEAU AND COMING OF THE FIRST NUNS.
1843- 1844.
The liquor evil — Darveau's pluck — Antagonism of the Protestant catechist — Darveau is done to death — Steps taken to get nuns — The first sisters in the west 171
CHAPTER XII.
ARRIVAL OF THE OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE.
1844- 1847.
The western missions dreaded — The Oblates accept them — Arrival of the two first Oblates in the west — The Denes — Activities everywhere — Epidemic at Red River — Fathers Bermond and Faraud — He a la Crosse 187
CHAPTER XIII.
TROUBLES AT HOME; CONSOLATIONS FROM ABROAD.
1847-1860.
Material cares — The Company's exactions — Petitions and investigation — Exit Mr. Belcourt — The question of a coadjutor — Arrest of Sayer — His forced liberation — Tache' appointed coadjutor — 209
CHAPTER XIV.
"DEATH OF BISHOP PROVENCHER"
1850-1853.
Missions of Tache' and others — Tache's consecration — Antagonism of the Hudson's Bay Company— Grants for education — Mr. Lafleche as peace-maker — Battling with the Sioux — Arrival of Lacombe and Grollier — Death of Bishop Provencher 228
CHAPTER XV.
BISHOP TACHE' SUCCEEDS BISHOP PROVENCHER.
1853-1856.
The diocese of St. Boniface in 1853 — Bishop Tache* in the north — Arrival of Father Grandin — Lac la Biche founded — Father Faraud's missions — Poverty and enterprise — Statistics of lie a la Crosse 246
CHAPTER XVI.
SUCCESSES AND TRIALS.
1857-1859.
Tache' goes to France for a coadjutor — Preaching and printing — Missionaries come by way of Hudson Bay — Tache' becomes a "counsellor " — The nuns appreciated — Grandin appointed bishop — The bogus Son of God 262
CHAPTER XVII.
"UNTO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD."
1859- 1860.
Developments in the north — Ste. Anne's Mission — Poor fare of the missionaries — Bishop Grandin returns with new priests — Foundations — Travelling — First evangelization of the Eskimos 280
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE BURNING OF THE CATHEDRAL.
1860- 1861.
Bishop Tache' at Lac la Biche — Mr. Goiffon caught in a blizzard — The palace and cathedral on fire — New legal holidays — Inundation — Father Lacombe and St. Albert — Civilizing influence of the missionaries — Unfounded charges against the halfbreeds. 294
CHAPTER XIX.
"IN JOURNEYING OFTEN."
1861- 1864.
Bishop Grandin starts on a series of visits to the missions — Old Beaulieu — Site of Providence chosen — The Indians and the ministers — Hardships on the way — Typical mission house and travelling costume — Lost in a blizzard — Mr. Ritchot — Protestant bait for the Loucheux. 309
CHAPTER XX.
ONE MORE BISHOP.
1864-1866.
Reconstruction of the cathedral — Death of Father Grollier — Visit of Father Vandenberghe — Bishop Grandin appreciated — Bishop Faraud in search of a coadjutor 330
CHAPTER XXI.
CONFLICTS AND DANGERS.
1866-1868.
Father Petitot's travels — Mr. Bom pas — Father Lacorabe's camp attacked — New recruits — Bishop Grandin become vicar of missions — Five new priests — Recapitulation 340
Appendix A — As to the time of the Lake of the Woods Massacre 356
Appendix B— The Discovery of Fort St. Charles 357
Appendix C— The Red River Voyageur 361
LIST OF AUTOGRAPHS IN VOL. I
Lavdrendrye's 16
Father Mesaiger's 17
Father Aulneau's 30
Father Coquart's 39
Miles Macdonell's 66
Rev. Mr. Provencher's 102
Rev. Mr. Belcourt's 137
Rev. Mr. Thibault's 167
Rev Mr. Darveau's 177
Rev. Mr. Lafleche's 203
Father Faraud's 256
Father Grollier's 292
Bishop Grandin's 310
Bishop Out's 339
Father Lacombe's 348
Contemporaneous Map of Lav6rendrye's Discoveries 44
Provencher's Passport 98
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Rev. A. G. Morice, O.M.I Frontispiece
An Indian of the Canadian Plains 4
An Old Squaw 32
An Indian of the Far Northwest 50
A Shaman, or "Medicine Man" 74
Bishop Provencher 116
Rev. Mr. Belcourt 138
John Rowand 164
Rev. Mr. Thibault 170
Rev. Mr. Lafleche 184
Father Aubert 204
Rt. Rev. Charles J. E. de Mazenod 230
Rt. Rev. A. Tache O.M.I 250
Present Mission Buildings at Fort Chippewayan, L. Athabasca 258
The Beginnings of a School in the West 270
Bishop Grandin, O.M.I 286
Rt. Rev. Bishop H. Faraud, O.M.I 292
The Church with the "Turrets Twain" 298
First Mission House at Hay River 312
Northern Den Boys 330
Rev. Father A. Lacombe, O.M.I 348
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