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APPENDIX. 



and Bourassa. And so they have increased until now they num- 

 ber sixteen or seventeen, and have five missionary stations. 



Lake St. Anne Mission. — This place is known among voy- 

 ageurs by the name of " Devil's Lake," which is a translation of 

 the Indian name usually given in maps, Manitou Lake. It is 

 nearly fifty miles west of Fort Edmonton, the head quarters of 

 the Saskatchewan district. It was first visited by M. Thibeault 

 in 1843, but was formally taken possession of only in the follow- 

 ing year by Messrs. Lafleche and Bourassa. There are about 

 forty houses, occupied partly by half-breeds, partly by Crees, 

 Assinniboines, and Blackfeet. The present missionaries are — Kev. 

 Fathers Lacombe, Eemas, and Train. Making the St. Anne a 

 sort of rendezvous, they have been through the whole Saskat- 

 chewan Valley, and have gone to the source of the Athabasca, to 

 the Kocky Mountains, Eed Deer Lake, and Ile-a-la-Crosse. The 

 mission is provided with a chapel (now too small), a good house 

 for the missionaries, a school, and a convent ; which last, sisters 

 of Charity will occupy this summer (1860). 



Mission of Notre-Dame des Victoires. — The Eed Deer Lake, 

 on the border of which is this mission, is in the Saskatchewan 

 district. There are some half-breeds at this mission, besides 

 Crees and Chipewyans from Athabasca and Ile-a-la-Crosse. M. 

 Thibeault visited it in 1845 and subsequently. Eev. Father 

 Eemas settled there in 1853. Its present missionaries are Eev. 

 Fathers Maisonneuve and Vissot. The soil and climate permit 

 the cultivation of wheat at this station. The missionaries go at 

 times to Fort Pitt, but find little encouragement, as drunkenness 

 prevails to a shameful extent, both among the Company's servants 

 and the Indians. 



St. John the Baptist Mission. — This is at Ile-a-la-Crosse, in 

 the English Eiver district. M. Thibeault first visited the spot 

 in 1845, then in 1846 ; and in the fall of this year it was for- 

 mally occupied by Eev. Father Tache and M. Lafleche. Mon- 

 seigneur Gran din, coadjutor- elect of St. Boniface, and Eev. Father 

 Vegreville, labour there at present among Crees and Chipewyans 

 and the employes of the Company. They annually visit Lac 



