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Vert and Portage a la Loche. There is a handsome church, a 

 substantial house for the missionaries, and one ready for Sisters 

 of Charity. 



Mission of the Nativity. — The Eev. Father Alex. Tache was 

 the first missionary that visited Lake Athabasca, at the end of 

 which this mission is situated. He went first in 1847, then in 

 1848. In the following year Father Faraud was permanently 

 settled there. Pie understands the Cree and Cliipewyan dialects 

 perfectly, and is now assisted by Rev. Father Clut. 



Mission of St. Joseph.— It is on the Great Slave Lake. Rev. 

 Father Faraud visited the place first in 1852, and subsequently 

 in 1856; but it was permanently occupied only in 1858, when 

 Rev. Fathers Grollier and Eynard took a position alongside of 

 Fort Resolution. This is the furthest north of all the Roman 

 Catholic missions. In 1858 Rev. Father Grollier went as far as 

 Fort Simpson, the head quarters of the Mackenzie's River district. 



The number of baptisms by the missionaries from the year 

 1842 to 1856 amounted to 5137. Since 1856 there have been 

 no statistics received ; they are furnished only at stated intervals. 

 The revenue of the diocese of St. Boniface is not much over 

 2000^.— Abbreviated from the Nor-Wester. May IMh, 1860, 



VI. 



WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONS.* 



NORWAY HOUSE. 



Rev. Robert Brooking, of Rossville. 



Number of Members, 164 in 1859. 

 " Our population is still rapidly on the increase. . Since my last 

 report was written there have been thirty baptisms and only five 

 deaths, so that there has been an increase, by births over deaths, 

 of twenty-five; and there has also been an addition by families 

 coming in from other places. During the two years of my resi- 



* Thirty-fourth Annual Eeport of the Missionary Society of the Wesleyan 

 Church in Canada, in connexion with the English Conference, Toronto, 1859. 



