gifted linguist, he was not only fluent in Cree but also acquired a working knowledge of Ojibwa, Inuktitut, Chipewyan, and Norwegian – the last because the HBC had several Norwegian employees at Moose

, with seaman John Hepburn*, advanced to Fort Chipewyan (Alta) on Lake Athabasca in January 1820. Hood and Richardson remained behind to study

Fort Chipewyan (Alta). Delayed by the North-West rebellion [see Louis Riel*], he served for a year as a lay reader among the

and secured some furs from the Assiniboins, he returned to Beaver Lake. In the early spring he went to the Churchill River, where he purchased 12,000 additional beaver skins from Chipewyans probably on

leading Indian he had great prestige among the Chipewyans and the Athabascan Crees and had developed as well a relatively organized pattern of movement between the trade posts on the coast and the interior

HASSALL, THOMAS, Chipewyan interpreter, guide, Methodist lay preacher, and teacher; b

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

) and James MacKenzie* of the “old” North West Company at Fort Chipewyan. When the two North West companies amalgamated in 1804, John

, 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

 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

La Nativité mission at Fort Chipewyan (Alta) the following year. Like the French Oblates such as Pierre-Henri Grollier* who

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

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

, 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

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

 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

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

fulfil his promise, given by the HBC explorer William Stuart to the Chipewyan Indians, to start trading at

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

 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