for Oxford House and then Cumberland House where he took charge of the district, 1852–53. From 1853 to 1857 Bell supervised the company’s Athabasca District from Fort Chipewyan. Following a year’s
1803 he was sent to the Peace River country, where the XY Company had established itself, and then two years later to Fort Chipewyan (Alta) on Lake Athabasca to combat the incursions of the HBC men, whom
, and he died there, aged 71.
Fluent in Cree and Chipewyan, Charlebois was a skilful carpenter, constructing chapels, schools, and residences as
beyond Île-à-la-Crosse as the NWC diverted Indian provisioners from Clarke’s path. In October he established Fort Wedderburn on an island in Lake Athabasca, across from the NWC’s Fort Chipewyan (Alta). He
Boniface. Taché ordained him priest on 20 December of that year and sent him to La Nativité mission at Fort Chipewyan (Alta). Clut served there from 1858 to 1869, also ministering to the Chipewyan
appreciated by the native members of the congregation, who enjoyed music tremendously. In her husband’s absence in the summer of 1876, she travelled to Fort Chipewyan (Alta) to make preliminary arrangements for
fulfil his promise, given by the HBC explorer William Stuart to the Chipewyan Indians, to start trading at
North West Company and was posted to the Athabasca Department and then to the Mackenzie River District, being stationed at Fort Chipewyan and at posts on the Mackenzie River and north of Great Slave Lake
1824 at Genoa, Italy, son of Jacques Eynard and Marie-Anne-Agathe Lévêque, who came originally from Embrun (department of Hautes-Alpes), France; d. 6 Aug. 1873 at Fort Chipewyan, N.-W.T
board. By September he had reached Fort Chipewyan (Alta), where he established the first Catholic mission in the region, naming it La Nativité. For 10
, as he can put up with any sort of living, that is in eating and drinking.” Fidler spent mid January to mid April 1791 with Chipewyans north of Île-à-la-Crosse (Sask.) and after reaching the Athabasca
district, the NWC was far more strongly established than the HBC. The explorers therefore stayed at the NWC’s Fort Chipewyan (Alta) rather than at the HBC post. Through correspondence with Willard Ferdinand
establishment of an Anglican mission. Gasté spent the next 40 years at St Pierre, earning the title of “the Moses of the Chipewyan.” He travelled enormous distances to the camps of the Chipewyan known as
La Nativité mission at Fort Chipewyan (Alta) the following year. Like the French Oblates such as Pierre-Henri Grollier* who
June. He left there on 8 July to go to the Lake Athabasca mission at Fort Chipewyan, where he lived from 1852 to 1856 and from 1857 to 1858. In 1853 he founded a mission at the Fond-du-Lac trading
, which he completed at Fort Chipewyan (Alta). He made his final vows at Providence mission (Fort Providence, N.W.T.) on 21 Nov. 1863 before his cousin Bishop Vital-Justin
) and James MacKenzie* of the “old” North West Company at Fort Chipewyan. When the two North West companies amalgamated in 1804, John
Sturgeon Lake in the Nipigon department, and then on to the Athabasca department – Harmon arrived at Fort Chipewyan (Alta) on 7 Sept. 1808. They later moved to Fort Dunvegan, in the Peace
HASSALL, THOMAS, Chipewyan interpreter, guide, Methodist lay preacher, and teacher; b