ATHAPASCAN LANGUAGER. 



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Vegreville (V. T. j — Contiuued. 



4. All the niiiterial necessary for the roniiio. 

 sitiou of the Freiidi-Moutaguai.s tlictionary, 

 ■which will lie as large as the jireeeding. 



r>. Several other works: Songs, catechisin, 

 instructions, historic epitome of i-eligion. 



It grieves nie to have to say that for the 

 present all my scientific and literary work is 

 stoijped. A task more serious and more 

 important is imjiosed upon me. ... I am 

 the only priest to minister at Fort Saskat- 

 diewan, where I go every fortnight, a dis- 

 tance of 22 miles. On the intervening Sundays 

 I am needed at Edmonton, where, the pastor 

 understands only English and French, and 

 leaves to my care thnv-fourths of his congre- 

 gation, who speak Cree. I am the oidy mis- 

 sionary wlio speaks the languagi^ of the Assin- 

 uiboines, and I am obliged, onc'e or twice each 

 year, to speiul some weeks among them, some 

 40 miles from here. You will not be surprised, 

 therefore, when I tell you that it is nearly two 

 years since I have hivd any time to devote to 

 my manuscripts, and very little even to my cor- 

 resj)oudence. 



Father Valentin Th<iodore V6greville, mis- 

 aionary. Oblate of Mary Immaculate, was liorii 

 at Chatres, Canton of fivr<ui, Di'partment of 

 Mayenne, France, Septembei' 17, 1.S29. He made 

 his studies successively at ^fivron, Laval, Le 

 Mans, and Mai'seilles, wliere he was ordained 

 jiriest in 1S52. He had already been made an 

 O. M. I. religious, wlien. l)y way of Havre, New 

 York, Montreal, Chicago, and St. T'aul, he went 

 to St. Boniface, then capital of all the North- 

 west. He commenced to exercise the apost(dic 

 ministry in that locality and the enviions 

 among the half-breeds and pcojilcs of divers 

 nationalities (1852-18.^1!) and prejiared to pene- 

 trate more deeply into the North. During 

 185IJ-18.')7 he gave his attention to the Mouta- 

 gnais (Tchipeweyans) and to the (Jris (Ci'ees) of 

 tlealaCros.se. The winter of lS57-'58 he i>assed 

 again at St. Boniface. In 1858 he returned to 

 lie ;"i la Crosse, leaving therein 1800 to found 

 the mission of Lac Caribou, in the midst of the 

 Montagnais, and visiting thence the Crees found 

 farther to the south. Returning south to St. 

 Boniface, he went in 1865 to Lac la Biche, 

 where he ministered to the Indians and mixed 

 populations speaking the Montagnais and 

 Cree. In 1874 and 1875 he served the mission of 

 St. Joachim (Edmonton). In 1875, 1876, and 

 1877 he gave his attention to the Assuiiboines 

 and to the persons speaking Ci'ee and French 

 of La<- Ste. Anne. In 1877 and 1878 he built N. 

 1). de Lourdes (Fort Saskatchewan), and then 

 returned to Lac Ste. Anne (1878-188(1). In 1880 he 

 descended the Saskatschewan Kiver, stopping 

 at St. Laurent, whence he soon departed to 

 establish successively the following missions: 

 St. Eug&ne (1880), St. Antoine de Pa<loue 

 (Batoche) (1881), Ste. Anne in the town of Prin<c 

 Albert (1882), St. Louis de Laugevin (1883). The 

 first lialf of the year 1885 found him going from 

 one of these missions to another according as 



Vegreville (V. T.) — Continued. 



his iiresence seemed required in tliose times of 

 trouble and war. In the month of July, 1885, 

 he ascended again toward Edmonton, and as- 

 sumed charge of the Mission of St. Clnistoi>her. 

 Numerous visits in tlie lu^igliborhood of the 

 posts designated abo\e complete the lists of 

 wanderings of this missionary. He is now sta- 

 tioned at St. Albert, All)erta. 



Vocabulary: 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinn6 

 Ahtinne, 

 Ahtinnt'! 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Apaclu^ 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Aiiache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Ai)ache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Ajiache 

 A])ache 

 Apache 

 Athapascan 

 Athapascan 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 BeaVer 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Chippewyaii 



Chippewyau 

 Chippewyan 

 Chippewyan 



See Allen (H. T.) 

 Baer (K. E. von). 

 Bancroft (H.H.) 

 Buschmaun (J.fJ.E.) 

 Dall (W. H.) 

 Gallatin (A.) 

 Jehau (L. F.) 

 Latham (R. G.) 

 Pinart (A. L.) 

 Wrangell (F. von). 

 Allen (H.T.) 

 Bancroft (H. H.) 

 Bartlett (J. R.) 

 Bourke (J. G.) 

 Buschmann (.!.(;. E.) 

 Chapin (G.) 

 Cremony (J. C.) 

 Froebel (J.) 

 Gatschot (A. S.) 

 Gilbert (O.K.) 

 Henry (C. C.) 

 Higgins (N. S.) 

 Hoffman (W.J.) 

 Loew (O.) 

 McElroy(P.D.) 

 Palmer (E.) 

 Pimentel (F.) 

 Ruby (C.) 

 Schoolcraft (H. R.) 

 Sherwomi (W. L.) 

 Simpson (J. H.) 

 Smart (C.) 

 Ten Kate (H.F.C.) 

 Turner (W.W.) 

 Whipple (A. W.) 

 AVhite(J. B.) 

 Wilson (E. F.) 

 Yarrow (H.C.) 

 Athapascan. 

 Bancroft (H.H.) 

 Bancroft (H.H.) 

 Bompas (W. C.) 

 Buschmaun (.1. C. E.) 

 Garrioch (A.C.) 

 Howse (J.) 

 Kennicott(R.) 

 Latham (R. G.) 

 M'Lean (J.) 

 Morgan (L. H.) 

 Roehrig(F. L. O.) 

 Adelung (J. C.) and Vater 



(J. S.) 

 Anderson (A. C.) 

 Balbi (A.) 

 Bancroft (H. H.) 



