Father Lacombe, the black-robe voyageur

Father Lacombe, the black-robe voyageur

Author: Hughes, Katherine, 1876-1925

Year: 1911

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 —