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- Rapport sur les missions du diocese de Quebec - March 1853. No. 10.
Rapport sur les missions du diocese de Quebec - March 1853. No. 10.
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- Dates
- Mar 1853 (indexed as 1853)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- 1 item of textual record
- Scope & content
- Report [in French]: indicating that settlement at Maniwaki has existed for two years and describing mission. Stating that Indians there are very poor because are no longer able to hunt for their living. Reporting on allotment of reserve of 99,000 acres to them and citing agricultural progress there as proof of fanning capabilities. Also indicating that most of the Indians there can speak English or French to a certain extent. Further stating that mission there attracts Indians from Saint-Maurice, Grand Lac.Temiskaming and Abitibi and intimating that some of these people may eventually stay at Maniwaki to begin farming there. Stating that a good number of Indians came to the post from Grand Lac and Lac a la Truite last year. Also writing that much sickness existed at the mission and that many deaths occurred as a result Also reporting on Oblate mission rounds at St. Maurice; many Tetes de Boule Indians at Grand Lac. Also indicating hope that Indians from Saint Maurice, Grand Lac and the Ottawa would join together at River Desert.
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- Language
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