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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Vegr^ville (V. T.) — Continued. 



[Instructions or sermons in the Cree 



language.] (*) 



Manuscript, 53 instructions, equivalent to 

 250 octavo pp. They are not finished discourses, 

 but rather the frames or general structuresof 

 sermons. The sentences are complete and 

 accurate, however. 



[Monograph of the Cree or N^iyawok, 



with notes.] (*) 



Manuscript, 150 pp. written in French. 



The third part, pp. 120-150, consists of phil- 

 ological, grammatical, and etymological notes, 

 wherein the Cree is compared— first etymolog- 

 ically, then grammatically — with the Assini- 

 boin, the German, the English, the Latin, 

 French, etc. 



These manuscripts are in possession of their 

 author, who has furnished me the above infor- 

 mation as well as the following sketch of his 

 life and work. 



Father Valentin Theodore V6gr6ville, mis- 

 sionary. Oblate of Mary Immaculate, was born 

 atChAtres, Canton of !fivron. Department of Ma- 

 yenne, France, September 17, 1829. He made his 

 studies successively at !fivron, Laval, La Mans, 

 and Marseilles, where he was ordained priest in 

 1852. For a year he was an O. M. I. religious. 

 By way of Havre, New York, Montreal, Chica- 

 go, and St. Paul, he went to St. Boniface, then 

 capital of all the Northwest. He commenced 

 to exercise the apostolic ministry in that local- 

 ity and the environs among the half-breeds and 

 people of divers nationalities (18.52-'53), and 

 prepared to penetrate more deeply into the 

 North. During ] 853-1857 he gave his attention 

 to the Montagnais (Tchipeweyans) and to the 

 Oris (Crees) of lie a la Crosse. The winter of 

 1857-'58 he passed again at St. Boniface. In 

 1858 he returned to lie a la Crosse, leaving there 

 in 1860 to found the mission of Lac Caribou 

 in the midst of the Montagnais and visiting 

 thence the Crees found farther to the south. Ee- 

 turning south to St Boniface, he went in 1865 

 to Lac la Biche, where he ministered to the In- 

 dians and mixed populations speaking the Mon- 

 tagnais and Cree. lu 1874 and 1875 he served 

 the mission of St. Joachim (Edmonton). In 

 1875, 1876, and 1877 he gave his attention to the 

 Assiniboiiies and to the persons speaking Cree 

 and French of Lac Ste. Anne. In 1877 and 

 1878 he built N. D. de Lourdes (Fort Saskatche- 

 wan), and then returned to Lac Ste. Anne (1878- 

 1880). In 1880 he descended the Saskatschewan 

 River, stopping at St. Laurent, whence he soon 

 departed to establish successively the following 

 missions: St. Eugene (1880), St. Antonie de Pa- 

 doue (Batoche) (1881), Ste. Anne in the town of 

 Prince Albert, (1882), St. Louis de Langevin 

 (1883). The first half of the year 1885 found 

 him going from one of these missions to an- 

 other, according as his presence seemed re- 

 quired in those times of trouble and war. In 

 the month of July, 1885, he ascended again to- 



Vegreville (V. T.) -Continued. 



ward Edmonton, and received the administra- 

 tion of the Mission of St. Christopher. Num- 

 erous visits in the neighborhood of the posts 

 designated above complete the list of wander- 

 ings of this missionary. He is now (January, 

 1889) stationed at St. Albert, Alberta. 



Verreau: This word following a title or included 

 within parentheses after a note indicates that 

 a copy of the work referred to has been seen by 

 the compiler in the library of the Abbo H. A. 

 Verreau, principal of the Jacques Cartier 

 School, Montreal, Canada. 



[Verwyst (Eev. Chrysostom)]. Mikana 



gijigong enamog. |Katolik | anamiema- 



sinaigan j oma masiuaiganing | nibiwa 



atewan [ anamiewinan,gagikwe winan 



I gaie I Nanagatawendamo winan. | 



Amerika printing house, | o gi-raasi- 

 nakisan mandan masinaigan | 106 N. 

 Third Street, | St. Louis, Mo. | 1880. 



Frontispiece 1 1. title verso blank 1 1. ap- 

 proval of t Michael Heiss, Bishop of La Crosse 

 verso blank 1 1. preface signed by Christian 

 Adrian Verweyst pp. 5-6, text mostly in Chip- 

 pewa pp. 7-284, 1 blank 1. ; half-title (Kagige deb- 

 wewinan etc.) verso blank 1 1. preface (signed 

 Frederic Baraga) pp. 289-290, text pp. 291-585, 

 errata p. 586, index in Chippewa pp. 587-595, al- 

 phabetical index in English pp. 596-602, nine 

 other plates, sq. 16°. Roman Catholic pra\ er 

 and meditation book. 



Pp. 287-585 consist of a reprint of Baraga 

 (P.), Kagige debwewinan, kaginig ge-takwen- 

 dang katolik enamiad. 



Some copies have appended a reprint of Ba- 

 raga (F.), Otchipwe Kikinoamadi-Masinaigans. 

 No title-page; text pp. 1-8, sq. 16°. Alphabet, 

 spelling and easy reading lessons in Chippewa. 



Copies seen: Eames, Pilling, Shea. 



Missionary Labors | of | Fathers 



Marquette, Menard and Allouez, | in 

 the I lake Superior region. | By | Rev. 

 Chrysostom Verwyst, O. S. F., | of | 

 Bayfield, Wis. | 



Hoffmann brothers, | Publishers, | Mil- 

 waukee: I 413 East Water Street. | Chi- 

 cago : I 207 W^abash Avenue. | 1886. 



Printed cover, title as above verso copyright 

 etc. 1 1. preface pp. iii-iv, index pp. v-vii, text 

 pp. 9-152, biographical and historical notes etc. 

 pp. 153-262, 12°. 



Rules for the pronunciation of Indian words, 

 p. 10, note. — Some Peculiarities of the Chippewa 

 Language (long words, great number of verbs, 

 no gender, dual form, etc.), pp. 246-252.— Chip- 

 pewa roots (radical syllables or words) 

 resembling those of European and Asiatic lan- 

 guages, pp. 253-257. — Also scattered words in 

 Algonquian languages, with pronunciation and 

 definitions. 



Copies seen : Congress, Eames, Pilling. 



