An edition of Father Lacombe
(1911)
Father Lacombe
the black-robe voyageur
by Katherine Hughes
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
PART ONE
I
IN OLD QUEBEC 1889-1849
Chaste-Galerie — Saint-Sulpice — The Home Feast of the New Year — Childhood — Remote Ancestor an Ojibway Chief — L' Assumption College — Bishop’s Palace, Montreal — Rev. Georges Belcourt — Call of Western Missions — Ordination 8
II
THE WEST BECKONS 1849
Dramatic Scene in Palace Chapel — Departure from Lachine — Bishop Loras and Dubuque — A Missouri Flat-boat — One Month at St. Paul — Father Ravoux — A Coffin-bed - By Carts to Pembina — Saulteux Indians Pillage Travellers 14
III
HIS WANDERJAHR AT PEMBINA
1849-1850
Bishop Provencher and Red River — Summer on the Plains with Metis — The Wild Glory of the Buffalo Hunt — The Manna of the Prairies — Triumphal Procession of the Primitive Man 22
IV
ON TO THE SASKATCHEWAN
1850-1852
Returns to Montreal — Meets Bishop Tache — Volunteers for Western Missions — The Red River in Flood — Replaces Father Thibault at Fort Edmonton — Voyage up Saskatchewan in York Boats — Hardships of “Tracking Crew” — Chief Factor John Rowand — Welcome to Old Fort Edmonton 34
V
FORT EDMONTON IN ROWAND’S DAY
1852-1858
Headquarters of Hudson’s Bay Company in Far West — Primitive Stronghold — Rowand’s Folly — Lac la Biche — Studies Cree with Governor Simpson’s Piper — The Bully Paulet Paul — Defies His Friend Rowand, the Napoleon of the Saskatchewan — The Company’s Assistance to Pioneer Missionaries 46
VI
EXPLORING A NEW FIELD
1858-1857
Blackfeet Trading at Fort Edmonton — When Rum was Exchanged for Peltry — Lac Ste. Anne — Tache’s First Pastoral Visit — Father Lacombe Journeys to Peace River, 500 Miles Distant — Novitiate — Trip to Jasper House — Caught by Forest Fire — Into the Country of Warlike Blackfeet — Three Mangled Bodies 59
VII
PALLISER AND SOUTHESK
1857-1861
First Mission to the Blackfeet — Distress in Epidemic — Colony at Lake Grows — Palliser Expedition — Dr. Hector and Invalid Frain — The fameux Alexis and Dog-train — Lord Soathesk’s Tribute to Father Lacombe — An Unexpected Visit and Gladness in the Forest — Blackfeet want Father Lacombe as their Praying-Man 70
VIII
AN ORGANIZING GENIUS AT PLAY
1861-1862
Tache Selects Site of St. Albert — Father Lacombe Establishes Colony — The Golden Age — Builds First Bridge West of Red River — Initiates Transport of Freight Across Prairies in Red River Carts — Establishes First School West of Red River — Starvation on Plains — Plenty in Colony — Father Lacombe Builds a Gristmill 82
IX
VISITS FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD
1862-1865
Governor Dallas Visits St. Albert — Angered at Bridge — Lord Milton and Cheadle Arrive — Out to the Plains — Encounter with Medicine-Man, White Eagle — Murder of Sarcee by Little Pine — War-Party of Blackfeet Threaten Fort Edmonton — Dr. Rae Visits Father Lacombe — Gaspard Lacombe — American Miners Appear on Saskatchewan — Visit of Father Vanderburghe 92
X
A CRUSADER OF THE PLAINS
1865
Father Lacombe Assigned to Free-Lance Mission on Plains — Journeys by Dog-Train with Alexis — Head-Chief Sweet-Grass — Establishment of St. Paul des Cris — A New Moses in a Camp of Israel — Hunting Buffalo, and Souls 107
XI
BATTLE BETWEEN BLACKFEET AND CREES
1865
Midnight Attack of Crees on Band of Chief Natous — Father Lacombe in Tent of Natous — Amid Clamour of Battle He Calls on Crees to Withdraw — Crowfoot to the Rescue — Father Lacombe Advances Alone Upon Firing-Line — Struck by Bullet — Richard Hardisty's Welcome to Rocky Mountain House 116
XII
COURSING THE WIDE PLAINS 1865-1867
Christmas at Fort Edmonton — The Mess-Room of the Gentlemen Adventurers — Peace to Men of Good-Will — Jimmy- from- Cork — Gibbons and Livingstone, Miners — Father Lacombe Rescues Abandoned Squaw — Hard Trip to Fort Carlton — Bishop Grandin 124
XIII
A HUNTING GROUND FOR SOULS 1867-1868
On to St. Boniface — The Company Brings in Its First Brigade of Carts — Sarcee Maiden Captive — The House-Tent — Off to the Plains — Band of Starving Indians 136
XIV
SOWING IN TEARS
1868
Starring on the Winter Plains — Bouillon of Moccasins and Sinews — Carcass of Dying Buffalo — Camp of Chief Sweet-Grass — The Innocent Prodigals Welcomed to the Camp-Fires — Midnight-Mass on the Plains — Tribute of Sweet-Grass to the Pontiff 146
XV
IN PARTIBUS INFIDELIUM
1868-1869
Wins Sarcees by Coup d’Etat — On the Plains with Crees — Prevents Blackfoot Attack — Welcomes Bishop Grandin — Quaint Notes of Episcopal Surroundings in pariibus infidelium — A Successful Surgical Operation 157
XVI
ACROSS THE BORDER
1869 - 1870
Possibilities of Southern Transportation — Father Lacombe Departs for St. Louis — Fort Benton — Hunting Buffalo from Deck of Flat-boat — A Hurried Visit to Canada — Return West With Sister — A Hard Winter on the Plains — Blackfeet March on Fort Edmonton 168
XVII
RAVAGES OF SMALLPOX
1870
Fort Edmonton in State of Defence — Narrow Escape of Father Lacombe — Journey to Fort Dunvegan on the Peace — Ravages of Smallpox — Battles with the Disease on the Plains - A Year of Sad Memories 178
XVIII
“I will tell yon when my time has come!”
1870-1871
Many Pagans Converted — Head-Chief Sweet-Grass and His Past — Winter at Rocky Mountain House — Compiles Two Books in Cree — Author of Great Lone Land — Another Summer on the Plains — The Marriage of William-Quaint Ante-nuptial Declaration 197
XIX
FRESH MARCHING ORDERS
1871-1872
With the Blackfeet — A New Mission Along the Bow — Invents an Illustrated Catechism — The Beginning of the — Rumours of a Transcontinental Railway — Necessity of Indian Schools — Father Lacombe Receives Fresh Marching-Orders — Finds Winnipeg Rising Out of Fort Garry — A New Life Beckons 201
PART TWO
I
THE PLAINSMAN ABROAD
1872-1878
Archbishop Tascherau — Father Lacombe Learns the Hard Metier of a Beggar — Government Grant to Cree Dictionary — Sails for Europe — Ploughing London — Archbishop Manning — Experiences in Paris — Louis Veuillot — Tours France and Germany — Homesick for the Plains 218
II
OTTAWA POLITICS AND RED RIVER COLONIZING
1873-1876
Archbishop Tache and Sir John Macdonald — The Troublesome Amnesty — Sir Aime Dorion Appeals to Father Lacombe — St. Mary's, Winnipeg — Years of Colonisation — Ungrateful Nature of the Work — James J. Hill — Donald Smith — W. F. Luxton — Execution of the Metis Angus 227
III
THE PLAINS INDIANS ARE CORALLED
1876-1880
Plains Indians are Brought Into Treaty Relations — North-West Mounted Police — Buffalo Disappear — Famine Stalks over Plains — Father Lacombe Journeys to Rome — Echo of the Fifties — The Canadian Pacific Approaches the West — Father Lacombe Appointed Chaplain to Construction Camps 241
IV
CHAPLAIN ON FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL 1880-1881
A Tourney with Disorder — Deplorable Conditons of Camps — Visit of Marquis of Lome — Father Lacombe Longs for Indian Missions — Released 251
V
THE VANISHING WILDERNESS
1881-1883
Twelve Hundred Miles in a Buckboard — Pioneers in Prairie-Schooners and Red River Carts — Old Fort Edmonton Slipped Into the Past — Returning to Wilderness, Finds It a Frontier — Mounted Police Posts — Letter from His Mother 261
VI
CANADIAN PACIFIC MARKS EPOCH
1886
The Canadian Pacific Invades the Far West — Father Lacombe Quiets Blackfeet — The Frontier Town of Calgary — First Train to the Bow — Luncheon in the President’s Car — Father Lacombe President of the C. P. R. for One Hour — Ex-officio Arbiter in Horse-thefts — The New Order 272
VII
FOUNDATION OF INDIAN SCHOOLS
1888-1884
A Picturesque Western Invasion — Growth of Calgary — Plan of Indian Industrial Schools — Sir John’s Views — “Learning and Piety Are not All-sufficient” — Father Lacombe Establishes Dunbow School — Remarkable Progress in His Mission Field 282
VIII
METIS REBELLION OF 1885
1885
Misunderstandings Between Government and Western Natives — A Government’s Fatuity — Half-breeds’ Impatience — Riel Brought Back — To Arms! — Father Lacombe Aids in Quieting Blackfeet — Visit to Northern Crees — The Watchword, “Lacombe” 292
IX
TOURS THE EAST WITH CROWFOOT
1885-1888
Pleads for Release of Indian Warriors — Tours East with Blackfoot Chiefs, as Guests of Government — Indians Impressed with Military Force — Crowfoot’s Chivalry — Trip to Vancouver — Murder of Archbishop Seghers — Campaign of Begging in East — Opposition to Metis Colony 308
X
A NEW WEST EMERGES
1882-1892
The "chateau” at Lethbridge — First Council of Western Catholic Clergy — Visit of Lord Stanley — Courtesy of Van Horne — Death of Crowfoot — Trip to Sechelt — Meets the Aberdeen*— Demoralisation of Metis — Hospital for Indians 319
XI
MANITOBA SCHOOL QUESTION LOOMS UP
1892-1894
Bishops from the West — Indian Passion Play — Burning His Ships — Father Lacombe as Lieutenant of Archbishop Tache — Brief Respite in Hermitage — The Joys of the Open Road 333
XII
KEEPING STEP WITH PROGRESS
1894-1896
School Question Lingers — Father Lacombe Secures Co-operations of Hierarchy — Tour with Rev. Father Soultier — Death of Archbishop Tache — Assigned to Edmonton — Plans a New Work to Aid Metis — Secures Bridge Over Saskatchewan for City of Edmonton 345
XIII
SCHOOL QUESTION OVERTHROWS GOVERNMENT
1894-1896
Thrust Into Political Arena — Letter to Wilfrid Laurier — Intense Interest in Campaign Which Rouses Dominion — Remedial Bill Rejected — General Elections — Crushing Defeat of Government 359
XIV
OPENING UP OF NORTH COUNTRY
1896-1899
Returns to South — Bishop Legal — Illness and Financial Cares — Gift from Queen Victoria — Abbe de Bie — Klondyke Rush Opens Up North — Treaty Commissioners for North Appointed — Father Lacombe Adviser — Unique Celebration of Jubilee in Forest 372
XV
VATUR-OMNIBUS
1899-1900
Historical Fort Chipewyan — Disconsolate Gold-seekers Homeward Bound — Fort McMurray — Murder of Witigo — Golden Jubilee at St. Albert — Bishop Grandin's Toast — Why Father Lacombe Was Never Made a Bishop — To Europe in Interest of Ruthenians 387
XVI
AT THE AUSTRIAN COURT
1900-1902
Audience with Emperor Francis Joseph — The Oblate's Only Decoration — Renews Friendships in London — Poyerty of Diocese — A Fresh Campaign of Begging in the East 402
XVII
RETIREMENT TO HERMITAGE
1902-1904
Death of Bishop Grandin — A Financial Success — One of the Old Guard — Lord Mountstephen's Generosity — Retires to Hermitage — Disaster at Frank — To the East with Hands Outstretched Again 417
XVIII
A HERMIT WHO WOULD NOT STAY AT HOME
1904-1908
Journey to Rome and the Holy Land — "Le views Papa" astonishes Pilgrims — Rumoured Passing to Greek Rite — Meeting of Pius X and Father Lacombe — "M'sieu l'Empereur" — Loss of Noted Cross — Destruction of Colony School — New Plan for Memoirs 429
XIX
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
1908-19—
Abandonment of Metis Colony — Home for Destitute — Indian School System — First Catholic Congress in New World — Political Views of Father Lacombe — Attends First Plenary Council — Diamond Jubilee — Gaspard Lacombe — Meets Strathcona Again — Opening of Lacombe Home 442
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