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tertained at the Fort of the Colony. A large room in one of 

 the buildings of the Fort had been set apart for them, and it 

 was there that they held divine service. M. Provencher invited 

 all the mothers of families to bring their children who were 

 under six years of age to the Fort on the following Satur- 

 day when they would receive the happiness of being baptised. 

 All persons above that age who were not Christians could not 

 receive that sacrament until after being instructed in the truths 

 of Christianity. 



When M. Provencher had finished speaking the Governor 

 conducted him with M. Dumoulin into the Fort. Canadians, 

 Metis and Indians feeling very happy retired to return three 

 days afterwards. 



There were four children in the Lajimoniere family, but 

 only two of them could be baptised, the others being nine and 

 eleven years of age. On the following Saturday Madame 

 Lajimoniere with all the other women came to the Fort. The 

 number of children, including Indians and Metis, amounted 

 to a hundred and Madame Lajimoniere being the only Chris- 

 tian woman stood Godmother to them all. For a long time all 

 the children in the colony called her " Marraine." 



M. Provencher announced that from the next day the 

 missionaries would begin their work and that the settlers ought 

 to begin at the same time to work at the erection of a home 

 for them. 



M. Lajimoniere was one of the first to meet at the place 

 selected and to commence preparing the materials for the 

 building. The work progressed so rapidly that the house was 

 ready for occupation .by the end of October. 



Madame Lajimoniere rendered every assistance in her 

 power to the missionaries. 



The settlers in the colony were very poor, they had no 

 bread, nor had they any milk, most of the cows brought into 

 the country by the North-West Trading Company were dead 

 and there only remained four in all. The year that the mis- 

 sionaries arrived M. Lajimoniere had been fortunate enough 

 to obtain one of these. 



In the month of November M. Provencher left the Fort 

 to take up his quarters in his new dwelling and after service 

 he often took a walk on the banks of the River Seine and 

 usually stopped at Madame Lajimoniere's house where there 

 was always a glass of good milk reserved for the Missionary 

 which she offered to him with a good heart. 



During the years 1819 and 1820 those who lived in the 

 colony were almost reduced to extremity. Madame Lajimoniere 



