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Vegreville (A^ T.) — Coutinu.d. 



1, All llio iiintcrhil iioci'ssai'y for tln' coimiiii- 

 siliiiii III' (lie Ki(uitli-M()iit;i;;ii:iis (lictioiiiin , 

 \\ liicli « ill 111- :is lai'ni' as tlic iircccilinj;. 



.">. Si'viTal (itlii'i- woi-ks: Siinj;s, catc'cliisin, 

 iiistriiftioiis, liist(>ri<- cpitoinc i>{ religion. 



II "ii-icvcs iiic to liavo to say that for tin' 

 liriscul all my scimitiflc and literary work is 

 sIojiikmI. a task more serious and nioni 

 important is imposed iii)on mi'. ... I am 

 tlie only ]iriest to ministei' at Fort Saskat- 

 eliewan. wlieie I j;(> eveiy foitniyllit, a ills- 

 tance of 22 niili's. ( »n tlii' intervening Sundays 

 I am lU^ediMl at Hilmonti)n, wlieri> the pastor 

 nnderstands only Knslish anil Freneh, and 

 leaves to my eare tlii'ee-fonrths of his eon^re- 

 f^ation, who speak Cree. I am the only mis. 

 sionary wlio speaks the language of the Assin- 

 nilioines, and I am oblijfiMl, once or t wire each 

 year, to spend some weeks amonu; them, some 

 4U miles from here. Vim will not he snrprl.seil, 

 tlierefore, when 1 tell yuii that it is nearly two 

 years sinee I have lia<l any time to devote to 

 my manus<'ripts, and very little even to m\ enr- 

 respondenee. 



Father Valentin Th^-odore Vejireville, mis- 

 sionary, Oblate of ^fary Tmmai iilate, was horn 

 at rhatres. Canton of l5vron, Department of 

 Mayenne. France, September 17, 1S29. He made 

 his stiuUes successively at fivron, Laval, Le 

 JIans. and Marseilles, where he was ordained 

 jiiiest in 18.'>2. Ho had alre;uly been nnide an 

 (). M. I. religious, when, by way of Ha\'ro, Xew 

 York, Montreal, Chicago, and St. Paul, he went 

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

 west. He conimeuced to exercise the apostidic. 

 ministry in that locality and the enviiinis 

 among the lialf-breeds and ])eoi)les of divers 

 nationalities (1852-18."):!) and prepared to pene- 

 trate more deeply into the North. During 

 1853-18," he gave his attention to the Monta- 

 gnais (Tcliipeweyans) and to the Cris (Creos) of 

 lie a la Crosse. The winti-rof 1857-"58hepas.sed 

 again at St. Boniface. In 18.">S he returned to 

 lie a la Crosse, leaving there in 18fi0 to found 

 the mi.ssion of Lac Caribou, in tlie midst of the 

 Alontagnais, and visiting thence t he (h-ees found 

 farther to the .south. Returning south to St. 

 Boniface, he went in 18fi.") to Lac la B.iche, 

 whei'e he ministered to the Indians and mixed 

 po|ndations speaking the Moutagnais ai^l 

 Cree. In 1874 and ]87.'« he si-rved themissionof 

 St. Joachim (Edmonton). In 1.S7."), 187G, and 

 1877 he gave his attention to the Assiniboines 

 and to the persons speaking ('ree and French 

 of Lac Ste. Anne. lu 1.877 and 1878 he built X. 

 D. de Lourdes (Fort Saskatchewan), and then 

 returned to Lac Ste. Anne (1878-18,'f()). Inl88Uhe 

 descended the Saskatschewan Kiver, stoi>ping 

 at St. Laurent, whence he soon departed to 

 establish successively the tVdlowing missions: 

 St. Eugene (1880), St. Antoine de Padone 

 (Batoche) (1881), Ste. Annein thetownof Prinei^ 

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

 tirst half of the year 1885 found him going from 

 one of these missions to another according mi 



Vegreville ( V. T. ) — Contiinnnl. 



Ills prcsiuce seemed re(|nireil in those times of 

 (rouble .ind war. In the month of duly, 188.'., 

 li(^ ascended again toward Kdmonlon, and as- 

 sumed charge of (be Mission of SI. Chiislopher. 

 XiiMierous visits in Ihe neigliboihood of the 

 )(osts ilesignated above complete the lists of 

 wiuidi^rings of tliis missionary. He is uow sta- 

 tioned at St. Albert. Alberta. 



Vocabulary: 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinn6 

 .\litinn6 

 Ahtinn^"! 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Ahtinne 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apach(^ 

 Ai)aclio 

 Apache 

 Apacho 

 Ai)ache 

 Apache 

 Apacho 

 Apache 

 Apacho 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Ap.ache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 Apache 

 A]>:iche 

 Ajiache 

 Athapascan 

 Athapascan 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 15eaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Beaver 

 Chijipewyau 



t.'hippewyan 

 Chippewyan 

 Chippewyan 



I Allen (II.T.) 

 Baer (K. K. von). 

 H.incroft (II. H.) 

 P.uschmanii (.T.C. E.) 

 Ball (W. H.) 

 Gallatin (A.) 

 Jehan (L. F.) 

 Latham (R. G.) 

 Pinart (A.L.) 

 ■Wraugell (F. von). 

 Allen (H.T.) 

 r.au<roft(II. n.) 

 Bartlett (J. R.) 

 P.ourke (J.G.) 

 Ibischmann (.I.C. E.) 

 Chai)in (G.) 

 Cremony (J. C) 

 Froebel (J.) 

 Gatschet (A. S.) 

 Gilbert (G.K.) 

 Henry (C. C.) 

 Higgius (N. S.) 

 Hoft'man (W.J.) 

 Loew (().) 

 McKlii)y(P.D.) 

 Palmer (E.) 

 Pimentel (F.) 

 Ruby (C.) 

 Schoolcraft (H. R.) 

 Sherwood (W. L.) 

 Sirap.son (J. H.) 

 Smart (C.) 

 Ten Kate (H. F. C.) 

 Turner (W.W.) 

 Whipple (A. TV.) 

 White (J. li.) 

 AVil.son (E. F.) 

 Yarrow (H. C.) 

 Atbap;iscan. 

 l;an<roft(H. H.) 

 Bancroft (H.H.) 

 Bompas (W. C.) 

 Buschmaiin (J. C. E.) 

 G.arrioch (.\.C.) 

 How.se (.J.) 

 Kennieott(R.) 

 Latham (R.G.) 

 MLean (J.) 

 Morgan (L. H.) 

 Koehrig(F. L.O.) 

 Adelung (J.t;.) and Yater 



(J.S.) 

 Anderson (A. C.) 

 i:albi(.-V.) 

 I'.aneroft (H. H.) 



