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Inasmuch 



Henry Budd 

 Ordained, 

 Dec. 22nd, 

 1850 



Lac LaRonge 

 Mission 



The Islington 

 Station 



ordination of Henry Budd, one of the two boys 

 taken to Red River by the Reverend John West 

 on his arrival at York Factory, and the founder 

 of the Cumberland Mission. Eleven hundred 

 people were present at the service and over three 

 hundred partook of the Holy Communion. 



The most notable extensions of a rapidly grow 

 ing work were north-westward to Lac La Ronge; 

 north-eastward to Islington about one hundred 

 miles up the Winnipeg River, and thence to the 

 shores of James Bay. 



Of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt s departure to the former 

 station we read: &quot;When they started on their 

 nine hundred miles journey from Red River, the 

 large boat which was to take them across Lake 

 Winnipeg was loaded with provisions for fifteen 

 months, flour, pemmican, etc., with tools, locks, 

 hinges, window frames, glass, etc., and with 

 blankets and warm clothing. The St. Andrews 

 congregation presented them with 50 hundred 

 weight of flour to give to the destitute Indians; 

 and the gifts of individuals were very touching, 

 one poor woman bringing two dozen eggs, an 

 other a pair of fowls, and one man a basket of 

 salt. The journey occupied seven weeks; and on 

 arriving at Lac La Ronge they found nothing 

 to be seen but rocks and water, except that here 

 and there a little soil had drifted into the chasms, 

 and afforded a precarious nourishment to a few 

 trees.&quot; 



&quot;The White Dog Station received the name of 

 Islington, from a curious circumstance, an old 



