Cree Search

Vol 1

12  Cree was spoken at the Red River settlement.

18  Father Lacombe study Cree. 

25  Mistaskahikun is the Cree name for The Big Lake Settlement (St. Albert). 

31  Father Lacombe traveled to spreed the gospel to Cree and Blackfoot.

32 Father Lacombe taught the Nuns (sisters) basic Cree in two weeks.

35  Bishop Tache sent Vital-Justin Grandin to work with the Cree.

38 Father Lacombe explained the assembly in French and Cree.

44 Olivier Bellerose spoke very little Cree.

55 St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church was trilingual spoke Cree, English and French. 

56 Parents taught children Cree language.

57 In the 1870's St. Albert became home to a growing numbers of French Canadians with Cree French and English.  

58 The St. Albert Cree and Metis got infected with smallpox by the Blackfoot   

79 children whose mother tongue was Cree did well in English and French.

82-83 midnight mass was in Cree.

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85  cannot find.                   

86  Father Beaudry is good at Cree language.

95 The Octave Bellerose Family spoke Cree very well

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Local History Links

• St. Albert Historical Network
• St. Albert Christmas
• Morinville History Links

Grade2 suggestions

Start with big lake settlement and Father Lacomb and Bishop Tache (Go to Chapter 1 Introduction)

Option: Could go to the map on page 71.

Then go through the Pictorial History of St. Albert Teachers read forward & introduction then start with your students on St. Albert Mission page. Use arrows to page through the book.

Father Jan

Search results for " Father Jan" taken from A Black Robes Vision Volume 2

pg470- Picture of Father Jan
pg471 - Father Jan gives a Speach
pg472- Picture of Father Jan when he was apart of the Memorial Committee
pg473 - Father Jan was the Treasurer for the Edmonton Board of Trade
pg474- Picture of Father Jan
pg475 - Father Jan Gave a speach at the opening of a monument
pg482 -Father Jan supported The Grandin Dramatic Club
pg567 - Father Jan Handed out the school childrens reports at the end of each day.

Little White School

The Black Robe's Vision seach results for "Little White School "

pg723 - The Little White School was called Father Jan School

Search Results from A Black Robes Vision Volume 2 relating to Father Jan School

pg500 -Father Jan School was the old Brick School
pg503 - The Patrick Benoit's pond is now where Father Jan School is located
pg650 - Collin MacMillan attended Father Jan School.
pg654 - Norman Girard attended Fathe Jan School
pg669 - The Little Father Jan School was opened in 1949
pg697 - The Kingsmen hosted Saterday afternoon movies for Children who went to the Father Jan School
pg699 - Father Jan School sponcered a dance that was held to commemerate Canadas 100th Birthday
pg700 - Father Jan School gives forigin aid to students
pg723 - Father Jan School was commonly refered to as " The Little White School House"
pg724 - Prodestant children in Grades one and two who lioved rear Sturgeon River attened school in a portable near Father Jan School
pg730 - Children attended Father Jan School before they attened Bertha Kennedy Community School.
pg731 - Artical on Father Jan School

Big Lake Settlement

Results from a Search For "Big Lake Settlement" taken from A Black Robe's Vision Volume One

pg5 - Describes where the settlement was
pg24 - The settlement fails to gain independence from HBC
pg27 - A Dam was build on the north end of the lake to provide water for a flour mill at Big Lake Settlement.

pg30 - There was a Hudson Bay Fur Trade Post set up in Big Lake

pg61 - Edmonton Bulliton Crops at Big Lake doing well

pg74 - Threshing of grain is a slow process at Big Lake

pg93 - Octave Majeau moved to Big Lake settlement with his family and lived there the rest of his life.

pg97 - Octave Bellerose build a nice big farm house at Big Lake Settlement

pg105 - The L'Hirondelles moved to Big Lake settlement with there family and the parents liuved there untill they died and their four daughterrsd married local men of the settlement and lived at the settlement until they died.

pg249 - Big Lake Settlementy was first settled by tghe Metis people and then white settlers names of early settleres in the area are listed on this page.

All the following Pages Below Are N/A:

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Search results for "Settlement" Only taken from A Black Robes Vison Volume one

pg12 - Red River Settlement

pg13 -Red River Settlement encoraged many settlers to move west.

pg70 - A Map of the St. Albert Settlement of 1882-1883

pg73 - The St. Albert Settlement expanded east and west during 1870-1885

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A Pictorial History of St. Albert

The pictorial history is in reverse order the last page is first