Father Lacombe
Subtitle: the black-robe voyageur
Publisher: Moffat, Yard and Company
Published: 1911
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PART ONE; title: I; title: IN OLD QUEBEC 1889-1849; title: 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; title: II; title: THE WEST BECKONS 1849; title: 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; title: III; title: HIS WANDERJAHR AT PEMBINA; title: 1849-1850; title: 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; title: IV; title: ON TO THE SASKATCHEWAN; title: 1850-1852; title: 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; title: V; title: FORT EDMONTON IN ROWAND’S DAY; title: 1852-1858; title: 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; title: VI; title: EXPLORING A NEW FIELD; title: 1858-1857; title: 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; title: VII; title: PALLISER AND SOUTHESK; title: 1857-1861; title: 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; title: VIII; title: AN ORGANIZING GENIUS AT PLAY; title: 1861-1862; title: 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; title: IX; title: VISITS FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD; title: 1862-1865; title: 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; title: X; title: A CRUSADER OF THE PLAINS; title: 1865; title: 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; title: XI; title: BATTLE BETWEEN BLACKFEET AND CREES; title: 1865; title: 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; title: XII; title: COURSING THE WIDE PLAINS 1865-1867; title: 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; title: XIII; title: A HUNTING GROUND FOR SOULS 1867-1868; title: 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; title: XIV; title: SOWING IN TEARS; title: 1868; title: 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; title: XV; title: IN PARTIBUS INFIDELIUM; title: 1868-1869; title: 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; title: XVI; title: ACROSS THE BORDER; title: 1869 - 1870; title: 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; title: XVII; title: RAVAGES OF SMALLPOX; title: 1870; title: 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; title: XVIII; title: “I will tell yon when my time has come!”; title: 1870-1871; title: 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; title: XIX; title: FRESH MARCHING ORDERS; title: 1871-1872; title: 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; title: PART TWO; title: I; title: THE PLAINSMAN ABROAD; title: 1872-1878; title: 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; title: II; title: OTTAWA POLITICS AND RED RIVER COLONIZING; title: 1873-1876; title: 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; title: III; title: THE PLAINS INDIANS ARE CORALLED; title: 1876-1880; title: 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; title: IV; title: CHAPLAIN ON FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL 1880-1881; title: A Tourney with Disorder — Deplorable Conditons of Camps — Visit of Marquis of Lome — Father Lacombe Longs for Indian Missions — Released 251; title: V; title: THE VANISHING WILDERNESS; title: 1881-1883; title: 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; title: VI; title: CANADIAN PACIFIC MARKS EPOCH; title: 1886; title: 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; title: VII; title: FOUNDATION OF INDIAN SCHOOLS; title: 1888-1884; title: 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; title: VIII; title: METIS REBELLION OF 1885; title: 1885; title: 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; title: IX; title: TOURS THE EAST WITH CROWFOOT; title: 1885-1888; title: 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; title: X; title: A NEW WEST EMERGES; title: 1882-1892; title: 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; title: XI; title: MANITOBA SCHOOL QUESTION LOOMS UP; title: 1892-1894; title: 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; title: XII; title: KEEPING STEP WITH PROGRESS; title: 1894-1896; title: 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; title: XIII; title: SCHOOL QUESTION OVERTHROWS GOVERNMENT; title: 1894-1896; title: 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; title: XIV; title: OPENING UP OF NORTH COUNTRY; title: 1896-1899; title: 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; title: XV; title: VATUR-OMNIBUS; title: 1899-1900; title: 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; title: XVI; title: AT THE AUSTRIAN COURT; title: 1900-1902; title: 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; title: XVII; title: RETIREMENT TO HERMITAGE; title: 1902-1904; title: 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; title: XVIII; title: A HERMIT WHO WOULD NOT STAY AT HOME; title: 1904-1908; title: 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; title: XIX; title: THE PARTING OF THE WAYS; title: 1908-19—; title: 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