TABRIZ 



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TACHE 



Christ's life, and for centuries before, a fortified 

 town occupied the summit. 



TABRIZ, ta breez' , the most important com- 

 mercial center of Northwestern Persia, the sec- 

 ond largest city of the country, ranking next 

 to Teheran. It is the capital of the province 

 of Azerbaijan, and is situated about thirty-five 

 miles east of Lake Urumiah, at an elevation of 

 4,500 feet above sea level. Its original impor- 

 tance and population have been greatly affected 

 by numerous violent earthquakes. The inner 

 portion of the city is unattractive, despite its 

 well-stocked bazars and many mosques, but 

 the outlying quarters have beautiful gardens 

 and orchards. Before the Caspian Sea became 

 the commercial highway of the territory, Ta- 

 briz was the trade center for Persia, India and 

 the Turkish and Russian dominions. There is 

 still a good trade in rugs, shawls and dried 

 fruits, and the rugs of Tabriz are among the 

 finest produced by a country famous for this 

 industry (see CARPETS AND RUGS). 



Tabriz is the residence of a bishop of the 

 Gregorian National Armenians and has five 

 Armenian churches. There is a military col- 

 lege here, and the city is the headquarters of a 

 branch of the Imperial Bank of Persia. It is 

 connected with Julfa, on the Russian frontier, 

 by a railroad, which was opened in 1916. Dur- 

 ing the War of the Nations the place was cap- 

 tured in turn by the Turks and the Russians. 



TACHE, tashay', ALEXANDER ANTONIN 

 (1823-1894), a Canadian churchman, Roman 

 Catholic archbishop of Manitoba, a man who 

 wielded a greater influence over the Indians 

 and half-breeds of the Northwest than any 

 man has wielded 

 either before or 

 since his time. 

 For forty years 

 he labored among 

 them, with the 

 result that he 

 stands without a 

 rival in his field. 



Archbishop 

 Tache was born 

 at Riviere du 



ARCHBISHOP TACHE 



Loup, Que. He received a good education at 

 Saint Hyacinthe College, Montreal Theological 

 Seminary and Chambly College, and then in 

 1842 became instructor of mathematics in Saint 

 Hyacinthe College. Two years later, however, 

 he resigned to become a novice in the Order of 

 the Oblate Fathers. Tache was a great-great- 

 grandson of Louis Joliet, and in his veins 



coursed the blood of the Sieur Varennes de la 

 Verandrye. With such ancestors Tache was 

 naturally a man to break a new path. He 

 volunteered for missionary service among the 

 Indians in the Red River district, and after 

 an arduous overland journey of two months 

 reached Saint Boniface in August, 1845. 



Three months after his arrival at Saint Boni- 

 face, Tache was ordained a priest. Thereafter, 

 except for a year spent in France, Saint Boni- 

 face was his home. He became known through- 

 out the West for the long journeys he made, 

 for his courage and zeal, and as the result of 

 these traits had a remarkable influence over the 

 Indians. In 1851 he was summoned to France 

 for promotion by the Superior of the Oblate 

 Fathers, but after a year was allowed to return 

 to Canada and in 1853 was created bishop of 

 Saint Boniface. 



During the troubled period which preceded 

 the formation of Manitoba as a province, the 

 bishop urged upon the Dominion government 

 the necessity of adjusting the grievances of the 

 Indians and half-breeds. Had his advice been 

 followed the Red River Rebellion might have 

 been averted. As it was, when the trouble 

 came, he was in Rome, but he hurried home, 

 too late to prevent bloodshed but still in time 

 to help in the settlement. In 1871 Saint Boni- 

 face was made a metropolitan see, and Tache 

 became the first archbishop. He died at Win- 

 nipeg, and was buried in the cathedral at Saint 

 Boniface. 



Consult Dent's Canadian Portrait Gallery. 



TACHE, SIR ETIENNE PASCAL (1795-1865), a 

 Canadian statesman, twice Premier of Canada 

 and chairman of the Quebec Conference at 

 which the terms of Confederation were agreed 

 upon. Tache was born at Saint Thomas, Que. 

 Although his schooling was not finished, he 

 enlisted in the Canadian militia in 1812 and 

 served throughout the War of 1812. At its 

 close he studied medicine, and in 1819 was ad- 

 mitted to practice. He remained in active prac- 

 tice until 1841, when he entered the Canadian 

 Assembly. He resigned in 1846 to become 

 deputy adjutant-general of the Canadian mili- 

 tia, but in 1848 again entered the Assembly and 

 in March of that year became Commissioner 

 of Public Works in the Baldwin-Lafontaine 

 Ministry. From 1849 to 1851 and again from 

 1852 to 1856 he was Receiver-General. In the 

 latter year he was appointed speaker ^nd a life 

 member of the legislative council, and by the 

 end of the year he became Premier in the first 

 Tache-Macdonald Ministry. In 1864 Tache 



