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From the "CODEX HISTORICUS" of the
Qu'Appelle Mission: Father J. Presque Magnan OMI (1928)
Transcribed by
Father George C. Saloman OMI (1978). Translated by: Lucien L. Bourret
(1988)
Lebret Local History Book: Mission to Lebret, 1865-1989, pp47
....commonly known as Qu'Appelle or
"Mission du Lac Qu'Appelle" is certainly one of the most important Institutions
in Western Canada.
Respecting pioneering, in the area of evangelization, it is certainly the first
of all the territories located west of the Red River to be evangelized by the
missionaries.[Catholic] It was first visited personally by the Holy Founder of the Western
church, Bishop Provencher, on his arrival in the Red River (1819) 110
years ago in (1928).
Respecting the establishment of the parish it was
personally founded in 1865 by the great Archbishop Tache.
The cross on
the hill, above Lebret had been placed there in 1865 by Tache. A cross
still remains in the approximate location.
Excerpts: The Company of
Adventurers: A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson Bay
Company During
1867-1874 by Isaac Cowie; Published 1913.
The
Lovely Lakes pp 210(1867) ...Framed between the graceful, curving slopes of the long
reaches of the deep wide valley, the Qu'Appelle River sweeps through its prairie
lowlands in endless bends from slope to slope, glinting in silvern sheen through
the greenery of its borders.
....and those of Alick and John Fisher on the
lower lake, were the only buildings between Fort Qu'Appelle and Fort Ellice.
Appendix C(1873)......On the fishing lakes, above and below the fort, some
twenty-five families of French Half-Breeds have established themselves as
"habitants" on a small scale; ....This comparatively fixed community, in a land
of nomadic hunters, is the result of the efforts of the Roman Catholic
missionary, Rev. Father DeCorby, who has been stationed since 1868 on the lake
below the Fort. [Lebret]
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