Ontario's Provincial Plaques

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Reverend Albert Lacombe, O.M.I. 1827-1916

Photo by Alan L Brown - July 29, 2006

Plaque Location

The District of Kenora
The City of Kenora
On the grounds of a church at the north end of Matheson Street South

Plaque Text

Born at St. Sulpice, Quebec, and ordained in 1849, Father Lacombe took up mission work at Fort Edmonton in 1852. The following year he founded Ste. Anne, first of several Oblate missions he established in what is now Alberta. He won the confidence of the region's Indians and, on occasion, averted serious inter-tribal warfare. Father Lacombe ministered to C.P.R. construction crews, 1880-82, from mission headquarters at Rat Portage (Kenora), where he began construction of a church in 1881. He helped restrain the Blackfoot Indians from joining the Northwest rebellion of 1885, and did much to ease the impact of white settlement on the Indians and Métis of the prairies. He died in Calgary, Alberta.

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