The fonds is composed of records related to the activities of the Knights of Columbus in general, but more specifically of the Alberta and Northwest Territories State Council and its constituent local councils. Included are meeting minutes, financial records, programs and historical materials in multiple mediums. The fonds is organized in series and subseries as follows:

• Northern Alberta / Northwest Territories Chapter series with sub-series for Districts 1 through 7;
• Edmonton Chapter series with subseries for Districts 8 through 16;
• Central Alberta Chapter series with sub-series for Districts 17 through 21;
• Calgary Chapter series with sub-series for Districts 22 through 30;
• Southern Alberta Chapter series with sub-series for Districts 31 through 35;
• Fourth Degree Assemblies series;
• Squire Circles series.

The fonds consists of images from Lac La Biche, originally dating from approximately 1915 to the 1940s, including the Mission Convent, students, sisters, priests, children, local residents, houses, hotels, stores, churches, streets, a baseball game, furs, ice cutting, animals, sleighs, automobiles, fishing boats, tractors and the lake itself. The fonds also includes a bilingual genealogy that documents the Durocher family’s 100 years in Alberta (1906-2006).

The sous-fonds as a whole includes the administrative and the operational records of the Vice-Province of Mackenzie and its predecessor bodies in western and northern Canada, from both the civil corporation and the canonical entity. It consists of administrative, financial, personnel, personal, parish and mission and institutional records, as well as those relating to First Nations and to indigenous affairs. The records may include textual and published material, photographs and negatives, sound, film and video recordings, cartographic material, architectural drawings and plans.

The series contains records pertaining to the Oblates’ activities and missionary work related to the evangelization of the Indigenous people, as well as administrative records of Oblate involvement with the First Nations, directly or indirectly, or records pertaining to the First Nations and accumulated by the Oblates. Records have been created by Oblates and non-Oblates. The records relate to various Indian Residential Schools (IRS), the Indian-Eskimo Associations of Canada, indigenous and Inuit missions, Inuit publications, education inquiry reports, press clippings, reunion records, various publications such as grammar dictionaries, religious texts and histories written by the OMI relating to indigenous peoples such as the Hare, Slavey, Nahanni, Dene and Blackfoot and indigenous languages such as Rabbitskin, Syllabics, Cree, Athabascan, Beaver, and Slavey.

This sub-series consists of records acquired by the Oblates related to the function of establishing and providing hospitals for charity. The Oblates were involved in provision of religious services to First Nations patients at the Charles Camsell Hospital, and many patients were sent there from the various northern missions and communities the Oblates served. This sub-series consists of related correspondence.

The fonds is composed of photographs, scrapbooks, sheet music, books, correspondence, press clippings, financial records created by the organization or related to its activities in Trochu and Vegreville, as well as meditations and memories manuscripts, sisters’ biographies, press clippings and other records kept by the Sisters of Charity. Also included are commemorative books on 90 years since the foundation of Trochu, Alberta and on Armand Trochu.

This series relates largely to the administration of parishes, missions and other localities within the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan, covering the area of Alberta and portions of western Saskatchewan. The records in this series vary according to each mission and parish, but can include codices historici which are daily journals written by the Oblates about the parishes and missions and its surrounding communities, libri animarum which are records of families, histories of given names, dates of births and deaths and marriages accumulated by Oblates, correspondence with the Provincial or the Bursar, correspondence with the local diocese, property and land records, financial reports and accounts, list of personnel, histories of the parish, newsletters, church bulletins, diaries, press clippings and scrapbooks.

Community material can include brochures, censuses, interviews, records of construction, press clippings, advertisements, articles, local planning or committee records, newsletters, genealogy records, project files, weather related material, school yearbooks, bulletins, and pamphlets specific to the locale.

The series also includes textual records and images of various Indian Residential Schools and their surrounding communities, such as Assumption, Brocket, Cardston, Cluny, Desmarais, Fort Chipewyan, Grouard, Dunbow, Hobbema [Maskwacis], Joussard, St Albert, Blue Quills, and Sturgeon Lake in Alberta. As well, some records relate to the following Saskatchewan schools, Delmas, Duck Lake, Onion Lake, as well as St. Patrick’s orphanage at Prince Albert.

The series includes numerous photographs, negatives and transparencies of local communities, subjects and activities. These include images of missions and churches and convents, residential schools, hospitals, buildings, industry and settlements. Images relate to members of the communities, students, teachers, clergy and nuns. Events include family and community celebrations, religious events, marriages, sports such as hockey, skiing, diving and ice carving, activities such as the Queen’s visit, the Papal visit, gardening, floods, oil work, burials, fires and other experiences of the communities.

The records pertain to the following locations: Albertville, SK, Aldina, SK, Ardmore, AB, Assumption, AB, Athabasca, AB, Athabasca Landing, AB, Atmore, AB, Banff, AB, Barnegat, AB, Barrhead, AB, Batoche, SK, Battleford, SK, Beacon Hill, SK, Bear Lake, BC, Beaver Crossing, SK, Beaver Lake, AB, Belloy, AB, Big River, SK, Blackfoot Crossing, AB, Black Lake, SK, Bonnyville, AB, Boyle, AB, Breynat, AB, Brocket, AB, Brosseau, AB, Buffalo River, NWT, Cabana, SK, Calgary, AB, Calling Lake, AB, Canmore, AB, Canyon Creek, AB, Cardston, AB, Carlton, SK, Carstairs, AB, Chauvin, AB, Christopher Lake, SK, Cluny, AB, Cochin, SK, Cochrane, AB, Cold Lake, AB, Crowsnest Pass, AB, Cut Knife, SK, Dapp, AB, Delmas, SK, Denholm, SK, Desmarais, AB, Donnelly, AB, Driftpile, AB, Duck Lake, SK, Duhamel, AB, Dunbow, AB, Dunvegan, AB, Edmonton, AB, Edson, AB, Egg Lake, AB, Eleske, AB, Elizabeth Colony, AB, Elk Point, AB, Faith, AB, Faust, AB, Fish Creek, AB, Fishing Lake, AB, Fond du Lac, SK, Fort des Prairies, AB, Fort Kent, AB, Fort MacLeod, AB, Fort McMurray, AB, Flat Lake, AB, Frenchman’s Butte, SK, Frog Lake, SK, Gleichen, AB, Goodfish Lake, AB, Goodridge, AB, Grand Centre, AB, Grande Cache, AB, Green Lake, SK, Grouard, AB, Gunnar, SK, Gurneyville, AB, Hafford, SK, Hinton, AB, Hobbema [Maskwacis], AB, Holyoke, AB, Hussar, AB, Ile-à-la-Crosse, SK, Jackfish Lake, AB, Joussard, AB, Kikino, AB, Kinuso, AB, Lac Athabasca, AB, Lac Athabasca, SK, Lac Brochet, MB, Lac Caribou, MB, Lac-en-Long, AB, Lac La Biche, AB, Lac La Nonne, AB, Lac La Salle, SK, La Corey, AB, Lac Ste-Anne, AB, Lac Vert, SK, Lafond, AB, Lashburn, SK, Lebret, SK, Leduc, AB, Legal, AB, Le Goff, AB, Lethbridge, AB, Linaria, AB, Maidstone, SK, Maillardville, BC, Makwa Sud, SK, Mallaig, AB, Marshall, SK, McLennan, AB, McLeod, AB, Meadow Lake, SK, Medicine Hat, AB, Midnapore, AB, Milo, AB, Morinville, AB, Muskeg Lake, SK, New Kiew, AB, North Battleford, SK, Okotoks, AB, Onion Lake, SK, Ouelletteville, AB, Paddle Prairie, AB, Philomena, AB, Paradise Hill, SK, Park Valley, SK, Pascal, SK, Paynton, SK, Peace River, AB, Pickardville, AB, Pincher Creek, AB, Plamondon, AB, Poundmaker, SK, Prince Albert, SK, Radway, AB, Red Deer, AB, Richard, SK, Rivière-Qui-Barre, AB, Saddle Lake, AB, St-Albert, AB, St-Antoine, SK, St-Brides, AB, St-Cyr, AB, St-Edouard, AB, St-Joachim, AB, St-Laurent, SK, St-Lina, AB, St-Paul, AB, St-Paul des Métis, AB, St-Vincent, AB, Sarcee Reserve, AB, Saskatoon, SK, Shell River, SK, Smoky Lake, AB, Spirit River, AB, Standoff, AB, Star City, SK, Stony Rapids, SK, Sturgeon Lake, AB, Sweet Grass, SK, Taber, AB, Thérien, AB, Trappers Lake, AB, Trochu, AB, Vancouver, BC, Vegreville, AB, Venice, AB, Vermilion, AB, Victoire, SK, Vimy, AB, Wabamun, AB, Wabasca, AB, Wakaw, SK, Warspite, AB, Waseca, SK, Waugh, AB, Westlock, AB, Wetaskiwin, AB, Whitecourt, AB, White Star, SK, and Winterburn, AB.

The sous-fonds as a whole includes the administrative and the operational records of the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan, and its predecessor bodies in western and northern Canada, from both the civil corporation and the canonical entity. It consists of administrative, financial, personnel, personal, parish and mission and institutional, records, as well as records related to the First Nations, and the evangelization of the First Nations peoples, including Indian Residential Schools. The records include textual and published material, photographs and negatives, sound, film and video recordings, cartographic material, architectural drawings and plans.

This series consists of records that document the management functions of the Oblate in the course of their work performed by the Provincial Administration throughout the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan. The records consist of administrative and operational correspondence with Oblate administrators at various levels, including Rome and with the various missions and parishes the Oblates served, and also with the Catholic Church and with external organizations. The series also includes correspondence files with the administrators of other provinces, the administrators of various Catholic bodies, with religious organizations of men and women, and with the administration of institutions run by the Oblates, including Indian Residential Schools and the federal government. Administrative records also include those related to Oblate vocational work and clergy formation as well as records pertaining to the establishment of missions, schools, orphanages, hospitals and the operation of chapels and churches in various communities.

This sub-series consists of administrative records of the Provincial of the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan, in dealings with bishops, vicars and communities of religious women, those administrators of dioceses, archdioceses, vicariates and other bodies. The records in this sub-series consist of correspondence, circulars and memoranda on spiritual and theological issues, business matters and concerns in the communities related to education, finances and individuals.

The topics of the records vary according to the bodies involved, but specifically, the records deal with some common themes, including administrative concerns and pastoral duties, diocesan and ecclesiastical affairs, the administration of the missions, residential schools and the parishes, conflicts between Anglophones and Francophones, as well as the day to day administrative work of these bodies and their interactions with the Oblates.

This sub-series consists of correspondence between the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan and the Vatican on all issues and matters of relevance to the administration of the province. The records include those concerning situations where reporting or consultation with Rome is required, such as the division of provinces, appointment of priests, state of the missions, missionary rules, the state of evangelization, the rules and hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and its representatives in the Vatican, Rome, Ottawa and in the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan.

Specifically, the sub-series includes correspondence with the Vatican and copies of letters from western Canada sent to Rome and maintained in the Oblate archives in Rome; correspondence dealing with church matters of the Oblate Congregation, including missions, sacred matters and vocations; Encyclical letters, official records relating to the Roman Catholic religion and issued by the Pope; correspondence with the Apostolic Delegation in Ottawa; Propagation of the Faith reports and annual reports to Rome providing information on Oblate priests, and on the administrative and financial situation of the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan.

This sub-series consists of records created or acquired by the Oblates related to mission work and their activities in the administration, operation and implementation of federal policies on First Nation schooling and education. This includes elementary and secondary education in general, as well as the operation of residential schools organized along federal guidelines. The records are wide-ranging in nature, and consist of memoranda, procedures, educational and financial regulations and policy documents, curricula discussion papers and studies, handbooks, publications and correspondence created by the Oblates and the federal government on the general administration of First Nations education and concerns.

The sub-series also includes reference to specific institutions and Indian Residential Schools, including Blue Quills, Brocket, Cardston, Cluny and Hobbema [Maskwacis], in Alberta, and Duck Lake in Saskatchewan. There are also records relating to education for St. John’s Seminary in Manitoba and the Group Home Project in North Battleford, Saskatchewan.

This sub-series consists of material created by and/or collected by individual Oblates over the course of their careers, and can consist of a wide variety of records including: sermons, memoirs, scrapbooks, day planners and notebooks, journals, research papers on and audio and visual recordings of First Nations peoples, culture and languages, on local flora and fauna, publications, records of interest to an Oblate, presentations made, indigenous and Indian Residential School related educational materials and research, articles, correspondence, and various histories and files on the Oblates and related religious organizations.

The sub-series also includes letters to family, family photographs and histories, recordings of events, images of vacations, and memoirs of various families. The sub-series also includes photographs of various Oblates in their working and their personal lives, of buildings, towns and surrounding areas, missions and institutions, including Indian Residential Schools, and people, families and also events such as parties, convocations, baptisms, weddings and funerals held at the various missions.

These communities include Albertville, SK, Banff, AB, Bankhead, AB, Batoche, SK, Battleford, SK, Beaumont, AB, Big River First Nation, SK, Blackfoot Crossing, AB, Bonnyville, AB, Brocket, AB, Calgary, AB, Cambridge Bay, NWT, Canmore, AB, Cardston, AB, Chipman, AB, Cluny, AB, Cold Lake, AB, Coleman, AB, Colville Lake, NWT, Coppermine, NWT, Coquitlam, BC, Coutts, AB, Cutknife, SK, Delmas, SK, Duck Lake, SK, Duncan, BC, Edmonton, AB, Edson, AB, Empress, AB, Exshaw, AB, Fielding, SK, Fish Creek, SK, Fond du Lac, SK, Fort Chipewyan, AB, Fort Good Hope, NWT, Fort McMurray, AB, Fort Pitt, SK, Fort Saskatchewan, AB, Fort Simpson, NWT, Fort Smith, NWT, Fort Vermilion, AB, Frog Lake, AB, Ghost Pine Creek, AB, Goodfish Lake, AB, Grande Prairie, AB, Gravelbourg, SK, Green Lake, BC, Grouard, AB, Hafford, SK, Hay Lakes, AB, Hobbema [Maskwacis], AB, Île-à-la-Crosse, SK, Inuvik, NWT, Jackfish Lake, AB, Joussard, AB, Lac Caribou, QC, Lac des Oeufs, QC, Lac Froid, QC, Lac La Biche, AB, Lac La Nonne, AB, Lac Ste-Anne, AB, Lac Vert, QC, Lashburn, SK, Lebret, SK, Le Goff, AB, Lesser Slave Lake, AB, Lethbridge, AB, McLeod, AB, Maidstone, SK, Maillardville, BC, Maymont, SK, Meadow Lake, SK, Medicine Hat, AB, Montreal, QC, Moosonee, ON, Morinville, AB, Mundare, AB, Normandeau, AB, North Cooking Lake, AB, Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, QC, Okotoks, AB, Onoway, AB, Onion Lake, SK, Opal, AB, Ottawa, ON, Peace River, AB, Peguis, MB, Picardville, AB, Pincher Creek, AB, Prince Albert, SK, Qu’Appelle, SK, Richard, SK, Richelieu, QC, Rivière-Qui-Barre, AB, Rochester, AB, Round Hill, AB, Round Lake, AB, Saddle Lake, AB, Saint-Boniface, MB, Saint-Paul des Métis, AB, St-Albert, AB, St-Brieux, SK, St-Joachim, AB, St-Paul. AB, Skaro, AB, Standoff, AB, Stry, AB, Sturgeon Lake, AB, Sturgeon River, AB, Sweetgrass, SK, Taber, AB, Tawatinaw, AB, Tide Lake, AB, Vegreville, AB, Vermilion, AB, Victoria, BC, Waugh, AB, Whitehorse, YK, and Winnipeg, MB. There are also records from New York, New York, and Chicago, Illinois in the United States, London, England, Rome, Italy, and Pontmain and Lyon in France.

The series contains records pertaining to the Oblates’ activities and missionary work related to the evangelization of the Indigenous people, as well as administrative records of Oblate involvement with the First Nations, directly or indirectly, or records pertaining to the First Nations and accumulated by the Oblates. Records have been created by Oblates and non-Oblates.

The sous-fonds as a whole includes the administrative and the operational records of Grandin Province and its predecessor bodies in western and northern Canada, from both the civil corporation and the canonical entity. It consists of administrative, financial, personnel, personal, parish and mission and institutional records, as well as those relating to First Nations and indigenous affairs. The records include textual and published material, photographs and negatives, sound, film and video recordings, cartographic material, architectural drawings and plans.

This series contains the personnel files and records belonging to or created by Oblates as part of the administrative function of the office of the Provincial. These records are human resource management files and are primarily administrative in nature. The files in this series include those managed at the Foyer Lacombe in St Albert and include the records for Oblates who had some responsibility within Grandin Province and its predecessor organizations.

Individual files vary; the personnel records often consist of evaluations, biographical notes, reports and scholarly returns, education, ordination and service history, and correspondence with the Provincial. While primarily administrative, the records can include material of interest to the individual Oblate. These files may also include obediences, farewell tributes, family and school records, funeral cards, journals, address books, research papers, stories and records related to life in parishes and missions, photograph albums, certificates, newspaper and magazine articles, newsletters, and manuscripts.

This series contains records of a personal nature, belonging to, or created or collected by individual Oblates over the course of their careers in in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the Arctic. The series also includes the personal records of lay people and other religious persona. The Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan administered the records, and may include personal papers of Oblates who served in predecessor organizations.

This series consists of records that document the management functions of the Oblates in the course of the work performed by the Provincial Administration throughout the Vice-Province of Grouard. The records consist of administrative and operational correspondence with Oblate administrators at various levels, including Rome and with the various missions and parishes the Oblates served, and also with the Catholic Church and with external organizations. The series also includes correspondence files with the administrators of other provinces, the administrators of various Catholic bodies, with religious organizations of men and women, and with the administration of institutions run by the Oblates, including Indian Residential Schools and the federal government. Administrative records also include those related to Oblate vocational work and clergy formation as well as records pertaining to the establishment of missions, schools, orphanages, hospitals and the operation of chapels and churches in various communities.

These records consist of correspondence between the Vice-Provinces of Grouard, James Bay and Labrador and Whitehorse and the Provinces of Manitoba, the North, Canada, St. Joseph, St. Mary’s, St. Paul’s, St. Peter’s, St. François-Xavier, the United States, Haiti, St. John the Baptist, Canada-East and Europe.

The sous-fonds as a whole includes the administrative and the operational records of the Vice-Province of Grouard and its predecessor bodies in western and northern Canada, from both the civil corporation and the canonical entity. It consists of administrative, financial, personnel, personal, parish and mission and institutional records, as well as those relating to First Nations and to indigenous affairs. The records may include textual and published material, photographs and negatives, sound, film and video recordings, cartographic material, architectural drawings and plans.

This sub-series consists of records created and maintained in the course of the administration of the Provincial’s office in the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan. The records are wide ranging in subject, and are mostly administrative in nature.

Specifically, the records include files on the Congregation’s constitutions, Council rules and reporting, projects, canonization and beatification causes, biographies, articles, discussions of separate schools, the Catholic Women’s League and Conférence Religieuse Canadienne conferences. The sub-series also contains Métis Land Scrip applications and list of claimants in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, as well records related to the 1885 Rebellion and Riel trial.

The fonds consists of convent and school records in the ecclesiastical Province of St. John the Evangelist run by the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin and embracing Alberta and Saskatchewan. The records of these institutions include, with gaps, the chronicles of yearly highlights with, in most cases, yearly lists of personnel and students; the financial journals which normally contain index of boarders and/or students, registers of admissions and departures, journals of receipts and expenditures; volumes containing programs of events, such as birthdays or anniversaries or Christmas concerts; half-yearly financial reports; inventories of properties; statements of accounts normally containing records of gifts, costs, taxes, insurance policies; minutes of local meetings; records of pupils associated with the Sisters in clubs; records of awards; registers of first communions and confirmations.
The fonds also holds material concerning the Japanese internment camps in Slocan, British Columbia, during the years of the Second World War; some materials concerning the general administration of the Sisters; publications written by the Sisters or used by the Sisters in the schools; personal records of sisters covering their career or research.

This sub-series consists of publications of the Oblate administration related to administrative structure at a provincial and world-wide level. The publications include letters from Oblates and notices of newly published works. The circulars at the provincial level include news of recent events, business requirements, notices of meetings and retreats, as well as notices of obligations and important works.

Specifically, the sub-series includes publications of the General House, such as “AROMI,” “Entre-Nous,” “État général du personnel de la congrégation des missionnaires oblats de Marie Immaculée,” “Missio,” “Notre Midi,” “Our Heritage,” “Personnel abrégé de la congrégation des missionnaires oblats de Marie Immaculée,” “Petites annales de la congrégation des missionnaires oblats de Marie Immaculée,” and “Revue apostolique de Marie Immaculée.”

This sub-series also includes directories, obituaries, general state of personnel, personnel summaries, list of Oblates, Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) information, OMI documentation, OMI forums, OMI couriers, OMI communiqués, newsletters, letters, OMI personnel, OMI Rome personnel, explanations, congregation members, exhibitions, photographs for the Brother Anthony brochure, annual calendars, and articles.

This sub-series consists of records created and maintained in the course of the administration of the Provincial’s office in Grandin Province. The records are wide ranging in subject, and are mostly administrative in nature.

Specifically, the records include files on the Congregation’s constitutions and restructuring, Council minutes, correspondence and reporting, projects, the canonization and beatification causes of Eugène de Mazenod and Antoine Kowalczyk, biographies, articles, discussions of separate schools, as well as miscellaneous correspondence and reports relating to residential schools. The sub-series also contains general correspondence, various codecies, as well as records of and relating to Vital Grandin, Albert Lacombe and Pope John Paul II’s visit to Canada.

This series consists of records that document the management functions of the Oblates in the course of the work performed by the Provincial Administration throughout Grandin Province. The records consist of administrative and operational correspondence with Oblate administrators at various levels, including Rome and with the various missions and parishes the Oblates served, and also with the Catholic Church and with external organizations. The series also includes correspondence files with the administrators of other provinces, the administrators of various Catholic bodies, with religious organizations of men and women, and with the administration of institutions run by the Oblates, including Indian Residential Schools and the federal government. Administrative records also include those related to Oblate vocational work and clergy formation as well as records pertaining to the establishment of missions, schools, orphanages, hospitals and the operation of chapels and churches in various communities.

In the course of their administrative work, the Oblates created, acquired and made use of published sources. This series consists of published monographs and periodicals on the subjects of the Oblates, the Roman Catholic Church, its missions, and the indigenous population of the Canadian west and the Northwest Territories. The series also consists of indigenous periodicals from various communities. Records were created by Oblates and non-Oblates.

This series contains the personnel files and records belonging to or created by Oblates as part of the administrative function of the office of the Provincial. These records are human resource management files and are primarily administrative in nature. The files in this series include the records for Oblates who had some responsibility within the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan and its predecessor organizations.

Individual files vary; the personnel records often consist of evaluations, biographical notes, reports and scholarly returns, ordination and service history, and correspondence with the Provincial. While primarily administrative, the records can include material of interest to the individual Oblate. These files may also include obediences, tributes, funeral cards and wills, journals and notes, address books, research papers, correspondence related to life in parishes and missions, certificates, newspaper and magazine articles, newsletters, and manuscripts.

This sub-series contains a broad range of administrative records related to the running of the provincial office and subjects of direct concern to the administration of the Vice-Province of Mackenzie. The majority are between the Provincial and those responsible for the running of the vicariate and later, the vice-province.

The records consist of reports, correspondence, statistics, meetings on restructuring, minutes, obediences, canonical visits, acts of visits, records related to social and justice issues, records of various Indian agencies, statistics, Codex Historici, and press clippings, newsletters and policies within the boundaries of the Vice-Province of Mackenzie.

This sub-series of monographs includes various books, plays, teaching materials, grammars, articles, notebooks, catechisms, histories, and dictionaries written by various Oblates. The records also include publications related to First Nations traditions.

This series consists of records that document the management functions of the Oblates in the course of the work performed by the provincial Administration throughout the Vice-Province of Mackenzie. The records consist of administrative and operational correspondence with Oblate administrators at various levels, including Rome and with the various missions and parishes the Oblates served, and also with the Catholic Church and with external organizations. The series also includes correspondence files with the administrators of other provinces, the administrators of various Catholic bodies, with religious organizations of men and women, and with the administration of institutions run by the Oblates, including Indian Residential Schools and the federal government. Administrative records also include those related to Oblate vocational work and clergy formation as well as records pertaining to the establishment of missions, schools, orphanages, hospitals and the operation of chapels and churches in various communities.

The series consists of published and unpublished maps collected and acquired by the Oblates to document properties owned and maintained by the Church, and for reference purposes. The records were used at time of creation and in a retrospective manner. The published maps include geographical, geological and hydrographic materials. The cartographic materials cover a wide range of subjects and locales, including British North America, Canada, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories, the Arctic and Alaska. Specifically, the maps represent missions and mission claims, waterways, indigenous populations, immigration, transportation, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) forts, sectional maps and technical surveys, cemeteries, properties, towns and communities, ceded indigenous treaties, parks and political settlements, lists of lot owners, railways, and lands for sale by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).

This sub-series consists of records acquired by the Oblates related to the function of establishing and providing hospitals for charity, as well as religious services for patients, many of whom came from Oblate missions and communities they served. This sub-series consists of administrative and operational records from the Faraud Hospital in Fort Rae, the Hospital in Fort Resolution and St. Margaret’s Hospital in Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories. Specifically, the records include correspondence, accounting and financial records, registrations of birth and death and patient files and other records of administration.

In the course of their administrative work, the Oblates created, acquired and made use of published sources. Records were created by Oblates and non-Oblates. This series consists of published monographs and periodicals on the subjects of the Oblates, the Roman Catholic Church, its missions, Indian Residential Schools and the indigenous population of the Canadian west and Saskatchewan. The material includes administrative circulars sent by Oblate Superiors General to the Congregation members, outlining spiritual and temporal deeds and accomplishments. The series also consists of Catholic and Oblate periodicals as well as First Nations’ periodicals from various communities. Records were created by Oblates and non-Oblates.

This sub-series includes monographs created by the Oblate Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan administration, individual Oblates, and non-Oblates on a variety of subjects, and acquired by the organization in the course of its work. The published works relate to the subjects of Canadian history, orphanages, Indian Residential Schools and abuse, indigenous culture and history, the Oblates’ history and their missions, biographies, memoirs, anniversaries and pilgrimages, politics, and Louis Riel and the North-West Resistance. The sub-series also includes collections such as the “Études oblates,” “Jesus of Ijittwāwin,” “Almanach français de l'Alberta,” “La Revue du Sacré-Coeur (Kitchitwamiteh),” “Petites Annales de la congrégation des Missionaires Oblats de Marie-Immaculée,” and “Revue Apostolique de Marie Immaculée.”

This sub-series consists of material created by and/or collected by individual Oblates over the course of their careers, and can consist of a wide variety of records including: sermons, memoirs, scrapbooks, day planners and notebooks, journals, manuscripts, grammars and dictionaries and research papers on, and audio and visual recordings of, First Nations peoples and their culture and languages, on local flora and fauna, publications, records of interest to an Oblate, presentations made, indigenous and Indian Residential School related educational materials and research, articles, correspondence, and various histories and files on the Oblates and related religious organizations.

The sub-series also includes letters to family, family photographs and histories, recordings of events, images of vacations, and memoirs of various families. The sub-series also includes photographs of various Oblates in their working and their personal lives, of buildings, towns and surrounding areas, missions and institutions, including Indian Residential Schools, and people, families and also events such as parties, convocations, baptisms, weddings and funerals held at the various missions.

These communities include Aklavik, NWT, Amos Lake, MB, Arctic Red River, NWT, Banff, AB, Black Lake, SK, Cambridge Bay, NU, Chard, AB, Conklin, AB, Colville Lake, NWT, Coppermine, NWT, Dempster Highway, NWT, Edmonton, AB, Falher, AB, Fitzagerald, AB, Fond-du-Lac, SK, Fort Chipewyan, AB, Fort Fitzgerald, AB, Fort Franklin, NWT, Fort George, BC, Fort Good Hope, NWT, Fort Liard, NWT, Fort McPherson, NWT, Fort McMurray, AB, Fort Norman, NWT, Fort Providence, NWT, Fort Rae, NWT, Fort Reliance, NWT, Fort Resolution, NWT, Fort Simpson, NWT, Fort Smith, NWT, Fort Wrigley, NWT, Girouxville, AB, Great Bear Lake, BC, Great Slave Lake, NWT, Hay River, NWT, Hobbema [Maskwacis], AB, Holman Island, NWT, Île-à-la-Crosse, SK, Inuvik, NWT, La Loche, SK, Labrador City, N.L., Lac La Biche, AB, Lower Post, BC, Muncho Lake, BC, Paulatuk, NWT, Pine Point, NWT, Slave Lake, AB, Stony Rapids, SK, Trout Lake, NWT, Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Uranium City, SK, Vancouver, BC, Yellowknife, NWT, Watson Lake, YK, and Whitehorse, YK.

This sub-series also contains records of research conducted by Maurice Métayer, omi and Robert LeMeur, omi who served in various missions in the north, Le Meur from the 1940s to the 1980s, and Métayer, from the 1940s to the 1970s. Their research encompassed a wide variety of cultural subjects and the records include work on Inuit traditions, histories, stories and folklore, genealogies, grammar, linguistics and phonetics, dictionaries, and texts and notes in or on the Inuktitut language. The research also includes film and audio of community choirs, dances and events and other research into songs, traditions and culture.

This series contains records of a personal nature, belonging to, or created or collected by individual Oblates over the course of their careers in in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Labrador, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the Arctic. The series also includes the personal records of lay people. The Vice-Province of Mackenzie administered the records, and may include personal papers of Oblates who served in predecessor organizations.

This sub-series consists of photocopies of original correspondence between the Vice-Province of Mackenzie and the Vatican on all issues and matters of relevance to the administration of the vice-province. The records include those concerning situations where reporting or consultation with Rome is required, such as the administration of provinces, appointment of priests, state of the missions, missionary rules, the state of evangelization, the rules and hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and its representatives in the Vatican, Rome, Ottawa and in the Vice-Province of Mackenzie.

Specifically, the sub-series includes manuscripts on masses, missions and transcriptions of codices related to Athabasca, AB, Fond du Lac, SK, Fort Chipewyan, AB, Fort Providence, NWT, and Great Bear Lake, NWT.

This series relates largely to the administration of parishes, missions and other localities within Grandin Province, covering the area of Alberta and portions of western Saskatchewan. The records in this series vary according to each mission and parish, but can include codices historici which are daily journals written by the Oblates about the parishes and missions and its surrounding communities, libri animarum which are records of families, histories of given names, dates of births and deaths and marriages accumulated by Oblates, correspondence with the Provincial or the Bursar, correspondence with the local diocese, property and land records, financial reports and accounts, list of personnel, histories of the parish, newsletters, church bulletins, diaries, press clippings and scrapbooks.

Community material can include brochures, censuses, interviews, records of construction, press clippings, advertisements, articles, local planning or committee records, newsletters, genealogy records, project files, weather related material, school yearbooks, bulletins, and pamphlets specific to the locale.

The series also includes textual records and images of various Indian Residential Schools and their surrounding communities, such as Assumption, Brocket, Cardston, Cluny, Desmarais, Fort Chipewyan, Grouard, Dunbow, Hobbema [Maskwacis], Joussard, St Albert, Blue Quills, and Sturgeon Lake in Alberta. As well, some records relate to the following Saskatchewan schools, Delmas, Duck Lake, Onion Lake, as well as St. Patrick’s orphanage in Prince Albert.

The series includes numerous photographs, negatives and transparencies of local communities, subjects and activities. These include images of missions and churches and convents, residential schools, hospitals, buildings, industry and settlements. Images relate to members of the communities, students, teachers, clergy and nuns. Events include family and community celebrations, religious events, marriages, sports such as hockey, skiing, diving and ice carving, activities such as the Queen’s visit, the Papal visit, gardening, floods, oil work, burials, fires and other experiences of the communities.

The records pertain to the following locations: Aklavik, NWT, Albertville, SK, Aldina, SK, Arctic Red River, NWT, Assumption, AB, Athabasca, AB, Batoche, SK, Battleford, SK, Beacon Hill, SK, Beauval, SK, Biggar, SK, Big River, SK, Brocket, AB, Buffalo Narrows, SK, Calgary, AB, Calling Lake, AB, Calville Lake, NWT, Cambridge Bay, NU, Canoe Lake, SK, Cardston, AB, Cluny, AB, Cochin, SK, Cold Lake, AB, Coppermine, NWT, Cut Knife, SK, Deline, NWT, Delmas, SK, Denholm, SK, Desmarais, AB, Drayton Valley, AB, Duck Lake, SK, Dunvegan, AB, Eaglesham, AB, Edmonton, AB, Falher, AB, Fishing Lake, AB, Fond du Lac, SK, Fort Carlton, SK, Fort Chipewyan, AB, Fort Cumberland, SK, Fort Good Hope, NWT, Fort MacLeod, AB, Fort McMurray, AB, Fort Norman, NWT, Fort Pitt, SK, Fort Providence, NWT, Fort Rae, NWT, Fort Resolution, NWT, Fort Simpson, NWT, Fort Smith, NWT, Fort Vermilion, AB, Fort Wrigley, NWT, Frog Lake, AB, Girouxville, AB, Gleichen, AB, Green Lake, SK, Grimshaw, AB, Grollier Hall, NWT, Grouard, AB, Hafford, SK, Hardieville, SK, Hay Lake, NWT, Hay River, NWT, High Level, AB, Hobbema [Maskwacis], AB, Ile à la Crosse, SK, Inuvik, NWT, Jackfish Lake, AB, Jasmin, SK, Jean Côté, AB, Joseph Bighead Reserve, SK, Joussard, AB, Keheewin, AB, Lac Caribou, SK, Lac La Biche, AB, Lac La Rouge, SK, Lac Ste-Anne, AB, Le Pas, MB, Lethbridge, AB, Letty Harbour, NWT, Maidstone, SK, Makwa, SK, Maple Creek, SK, Marie Reine, AB, Meadow Lake, SK, Muskeg Lake, SK, Nampa, AB, North Battleford, SK, Notre-Dame de Lourdes, NWT, Okotoks, AB, One Arrow Reserve, SK, Onion Lake, SK, Ouelletteville, AB, Patuanak, SK, Paulatuk, NWT, Paynton, SK, Peace River, AB, Pelican Lake, SK, Pine Point, NWT, Ponoka, AB, Portage La Loche, SK, Poundmaker Reserve, SK, Prince Albert, SK, Radisson, SK, Red Pheasant Reserve, SK, Rocky Mountain House, AB, Saddle Lake, SK, Saskatoon, SK, Slave Lake, AB, Snowdrift, NWT, Spirit River, AB, St. Albert, AB, St. Cyr, SK, St. Isidore, AB, St. Laurent, SK, St. Paul des Métis, AB, Standoff, AB, Sturgeon Lake, AB, Sturgeon Lake, SK, Thunderchild Reserve, SK, Trout Lake, AB, Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Wabasca, AB, Wabush, SK, Waseca, SK, Waterhen, SK, Willow Bunch, SK, Winterburn, AB, and Yellowknife, NWT.

This sub-series consists of correspondence between the Oblate Congregation in the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan and the Superior General, whose role was to set and enforce the rules of the Congregation. The records include those between the Oblate Provincial House and the administration in Rome, and deal with the relationships between the Provincials and the Superior General on the administration of the Congregation. The matters include those controlled by the administration in Rome, and the impact on western Canada and Oblate administration over time.

Specifically, the sub-series includes correspondence to and from the provincial House and the Superior General in Rome; circulars relating to Oblate administration; Canonical visits and acts; petitions to Superior general regarding matters such as vows, approval for nominations and changes of positions or permissions for retreats; rescripts outlining vows as well as observances, prayers, hierarchy and qualifications; constitutions and regulations; directories and necrology notes containing biographical information on Oblates.

This sub-series includes various publications from Alberta, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, predominantly indigenous newsletters such as “Across the Miles,” “Akwesasne Note,” “Confluence,” “Dene Express,” “Dene Nation Newsletter,” “Eskimo,” “Fort McMurray News and Advertiser,” “Fort Smith News,” “Hare Express,” “Hay River News,” “Indian News/Nouvelles Indiennes,” “Kanai News,” “Kiwetinok News,” “Le trait d’union,” “L’heure du rosaire,” “Mackenzie News,” “Métis Newsletter,” “Native Press,” “Native Women’s News,” “News of the North,” “PM,” “Slave River Journal,” “Smoke Signals,” “TAPWE,” “The Aklavik Journal,” “The Catholic Voice,” “The Chicago Tribune,” “The Drum,” “The Fort Report,” “The Illustrated London News,” “The Inuvik Drum,” “The Interpreter,” “The Mackenzie Pilot,” “The Moccasin Telegram,” “The Native People” “The Native Press,” “The Native Voice,” “The News,” “The Norther,” “The Pilot,” “The Pine Pointer,” “The Sun Dance Echo,” “The Time for Family Prayer,” “The Ulu News,” “Tipatcimowin,” and miscellaneous magazines.

This sub-series consists of various publications from Alberta and Saskatchewan, and includes periodicals such as yearbooks, “Entre Nous,” “Études oblates,” “First Nations periodical,” “Indian Record,” “Kainai News,” “La Revue du Sacré-Coeur (Kitchitwa Miteh),” “La Voix,” “Le Canada Ecclésiastique,” “Le canadien-français,” “Le Franco,” “Les cloches de St-Boniface,” “Message de l’Immaculée,” “Missions de la congrégation des Missionnaires oblats de Marie Immaculée,” “Monthly Cree Review (in Syllabics),” “Nuna. Inuinain Makperaksan. Magazine for Eskimos,” “Revue apostolique de Marie Immaculée,” “Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française,” “The Camsell Arrow,” “The Evening Journal,” “The Indian Missionary Record,” “The Native People,” “Vie indienne,” and “Western Catholic Reporter.”

The sub-series relates to the creation and administration of various schools including Indian Residential Schools (IRS) and orphanages in the Oblate Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan area. The Indian Residential School (IRS) system was established and developed by the federal government in the 19th century, and was overseen by government officials and by various Christian churches and religious organizations throughout Canada. The major denominations were involved, including Anglican, United, Methodist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches, as well as the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and various religious communities of sisters. The government system was implemented to educate First Nations children, but in practice became one of systematic assimilation and cultural genocide. Residential schools would operate for more than one hundred years.

The Oblates operated 48 schools in Canada. As missions were established, so were boarding schools to evangelize and reach the communities. The goal was to give students a scholastic and religious education, and in some schools, an understanding of industrial or agricultural knowledge. The churches received a monetary grant from the government for each child at a school. The IRS employed Oblates as principals, administrators and teachers, and religious sisters worked at the school, as did lay staff as cooks, farmers, carpenters, blacksmiths and janitors.

The sub-series consists of records created or accumulated in the course of the administration and operation of Catholic residential and day schools, as well as various separate schools. The records contents and formats vary according to school, but can include correspondence, decisions of administration and operational records related to the running of the school, its students and staff, budgets and financial records of the school or associated farm, registers of academic progress, attendance registers, historical notes and employment and pay reports.

The subseries includes records for the following Schools:

Beauval Indian Residential School, Blue Quills Indian Residential School, Bonnyville Public School, Cold Lake Indian Day School, Cowessess Indian Residential School, Crowfoot Indian Residential School, Ermineskin Indian Residential School, Kamloops Indian Residential School, Keheewin School, Lejac School, Notre-Dame-de-Fatima School, Prince Albert orphanage, Sacred Heart Indian Residential School, St. Albert High School, St. Anthony’s Indian Residential School, St. Bruno’s Indian Residential School, St. Catherine School, St. Joseph’s Academy, St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School, St. Mary’s Indian Residential School, St. Michael’s Indian Residential School, Teslin Indian Residential School, and Thunderchild Indian Residential School.

The sub-series also includes records created or acquired related to the following institutions under the responsibility of the Catholic Church, but where Oblates were involved:

Alberta Catholic Schools Trustees' Association, l'Association canadienne des Éducateurs de langue française, Brosseau School Board No. 47 and No. 1614, Catholic Archdiocese School Board of Vancouver, Catholic Indian League, Cold Lake School Board No. 64, Department of Indian Affairs, Diocese of Calgary, Federal Government of Canada, Fédération canadienne française de la Colombie-britannique (FCFCB), Fort Kent School Board No. 46, Glenbow Museum, Grey Nuns, Oblate Indian and Eskimo Commission, St. Pascal of Nazareth Church, St. Patrice Orphanage, Trochu School District of Pontmain No. 20, and Two Hills School Division No. 21.

The sub-series also includes records from the following locations:

Beacon Hills, SK, Blood Reserve, AB, Bonnyville, AB, Brocket, AB, Brosseau, AB, Calgary, AB, Cardston, AB, Cluny AB, Cold Lake, AB, Delmas, SK, Duck Lake, SK, Dunbow, AB, Edmonton, AB, Fort Kent, AB, Fort Vermilion, AB, Grand Centre, AB, Gurneyville, AB, Hobbema [Maskwacis], AB, Joussard, AB, Kamloops, BC, Keewatin, NU, Lac-la-Biche, AB, Lac Vert, SK, Lebret, SK, Legal, AB, Le Goff, AB, Lejac, BC, Maillardville, BC, Marieval, SK, Onion Lake, SK, Pickardville, AB, Pincher Creek, AB, Prince Albert, AK, Saddle Lake, AB, St. Albert, AB, St. Edouard, AB, St. Paul, AB, Standoff, AB, Trochu, AB, and Vancouver, BC.

This sub-series contains a broad range of administrative records related to the running of the provincial office and subjects of direct concern to the administration of OMI Lacombe Canada.

These records relate to the reorganization of Grandin Province, and to the creation of OMI Lacombe Canada, as well as. committee closures, groundbreaking ceremonies, the Justice & Peace Committee, transfer of members, corporations, agreements, residential schools, lists of Oblates, relationships with the apostolic vicariate, OMI policies, the Oblate Parish Mission Team, sermons, publications, scrapbooks, manuals, financial records, articles, reports, the Local Community Council, and Oblate histories.

There are also photographs of various places, events and individuals, including Vital Grandin Centre, Foyer Lacombe and its opening, obituaries, retirements, volunteers, and Christmas parties.

This sub-series consists of correspondence of a general nature between the Provincial of the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan and Oblates, other clergy and the federal government on various issues and matters of relevance to the administration of the Province. The records include those concerning administrative and financial issues, the placement of priests, the relationship between clergy and lay people, expenses, indigenous affairs and Oblate work with the communities and the federal government.

This series includes records created or acquired in the course of the administration of institutions established or maintained by the Oblates in the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan. A direct tool and means to propagate the Catholic faith, the Oblates created or ran these institutions to help evangelize various communities, both secular and religious. The series includes records of the administration of educational institutions, including local community and mission schools, residential schools, as well as administrative records of institutions for religious training and retreat.

The Laity sub-series consists of financial reports, minutes, correspondence, wills, marriage licenses, mass books, articles and newspaper clippings, biographical and historical and research notes, photographs, family genealogies, records of speeches and sermons, Cree dictionaries, and buffalo hunt drawings, collected or created by non-Oblates.

This sub-series of records consists of financial reports for the Province, the General Chapter, St. Joachim and St. Vital. There are also annual reports for the Oblate House. There are also lists of donations, journals, registers of expenses, allocations, and receipts for the Provincial administration and various missions. Furthermore, there are books of intended masses performed and missed for the Provincial Commissary.

The records in this sub-series relate to the administration of noviciates, the religious house for Oblate novices, prior to them taking their vows. The records include correspondence, attendance registers, and registers of oblations, postulant entries, as well as accounts, rules and novice lists.

The series consists of financial records that document all financial activities and transactions completed, directly or indirectly, by the Oblates in the course of the work performed in the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan. The records consist of correspondence related to properties and management of funds and loans, annual financial reports and account books, policies and guidelines, registers and correspondence for properties and mineral rights, as well as wills and other personnel related financial records of individual Oblates.

This sub-series consists of material created by and/or collected by individual Oblates over the course of their careers, and can include sermons, memoirs, scrapbooks, day planners and notebooks, journals, research papers on and audio and visual recordings of First Nations peoples, culture and languages, on local flora and fauna, publications, records of interest to an Oblate, presentations made, indigenous and Indian Residential School related educational materials and research, articles, correspondence, and various histories and files on the Oblates and related religious organizations such as the Sisters of St Anne, the Sisters of Providence, among others.

The sub series also includes letters to family, family photographs and histories, recordings of events, images of vacations, and memoirs of various families. The series also includes photographs of various Oblates in their working and their personal lives, of buildings, towns and surrounding areas, missions and institutions, including Indian Residential Schools, and people, families and also events such as parties, convocations, baptisms, weddings and funerals held at the various missions.

These communities include: Albertville, SK, Assumption, AB, Banff, AB, Cadotte Lake, AB, Calgary, AB, Cooking Lake, AB, Coppermine, NU, Deline, NWT, Desmarais, AB, Edmonton, AB, Falher, AB, Fish River, AB, Fond du Lac, SK, Fort Chipewyan, AB, Fort Franklin, NWT, Fort Good Hope, NWT, Fort Norman, NWT, Fort Providence, NWT, Fort Resolution, NWT, Fort Simpson, NWT, Fort Smith, NWT, Fort Wrigley, NWT, Fox Lake, AB, Garden Creek, AB, Garden River, AB, Girouxville, AB, Good Fish Lake, AB, Grouard, AB, Hay Lake, AB, Hay River, NWT, Henribourg, SK, Jagger Lake, AB, Kakisa Lake, NWT, Lac La Biche, AB, Lac St. Anne, AB, Lebret, SK, Lethbridge, AB, Mackenzie, AB, Maillardville, BC, Marten Lake, AB, Montreal, QC, Peace River, AB, Pincher Creek, AB, Pine Point, NWT, Plamondon, AB, Poisson Blanc, QC, Rivière Rouge, QC, St. Albert, AB, Sandy Lake, AB, Shaw’s Point, AB, Slave Lake, AB, Snowdrift, NWT, Sturgeon Landing, SK, Teslin Lake, YK, Trout Lake, AB, Uranium City, SK, Yellowknife, NWT, and Wabasca, AB.

There are also records for the following locations: Rome, Italy, Africa, the Arctic, Sydney, NS, and the Middle East.

The series contains records of a personal nature, created or collected by individual Oblates over the course of their careers in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the Arctic. The series also includes the personal records of lay people. Grandin Province administered the records, and may include personal papers of Oblates who served in predecessor organizations.

The series contains records pertaining to the Oblates’ activities and missionary work related to the evangelization of the Indigenous people, as well as administrative records of Oblate involvement with the First Nations, directly or indirectly, or records pertaining to the First Nations and accumulated by the Oblates. Records have been created by Oblates and non-Oblates. The records pertain to the Lubicon Land Settlement, Indian Residential Schools, indigenous history, culture and languages, the Louis Riel Rebellion and the Frog Lake Massacre.

The series consists of cartographic records covering a wide range of subject and locales, including British North America, Western Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories, the Arctic and Alaska. Specifically, the maps represent missions and mission claims, waterways, indigenous populations, linguistic families, tribal locations, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) stores, army and technical surveys, indexes to National Topographic Systems, Inuit communities, ceded indigenous treaties, fur trading posts, settlements, lists of lot owners, preliminary floor plans for convents, land occupations and of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).

This sub-series consists of records created and acquired by the Oblates to support evangelical efforts, education administration in First Nation communities and relations with various groups. The studies and the research is created by Oblates and non-Oblates, and include studies on First Nations and Métis. The themes of the material are wide-ranging, and include studies and research on First Nations and includes records such as reports, marriages, Métis settlements, living conditions, negotiations, correspondence, constitutions, evaluations, economic and cooperative developments, manuscripts, historical notes, studies, articles, newspaper clippings, Blackfoot legends, Blackfoot songs and stories, drawings, genealogies, writings and linguistics, Blackfoot chronological board, confessions, questions, Cree and Athabascan hymns, church services in Cree, plant uses for medications, briefs, statements, retired Métis lists, memorandums, agreements, surveys, school programs, conferences, censuses, trends, investigations, curriculum development experiment, memoirs, lessons, workshops, rights and titles, grammar and dictionaries for indigenous languages, music books, notes, and transcripts.

This series consists of photographs, negatives, lantern slides and transparencies of various subjects taken in or related to the northern communities of Canada in the Vice-Province of Mackenzie. The images were created or collected by the Oblates in the course of their administrative work or personal lives, and the records often reflect their secular interests. The breadth of the subject matter is immense and unique and documents many aspects of northern Canada and its peoples. Subjects may include Oblates and sisters in the various communities, missions, religious events and activities.

The images show communities and activities and include local landscapes, indigenous camps, missions, waterways, fauna, fishing, churches and buildings, indigenous people and families, bands and orchestras, transportation, hunting, fur trade, trapping, colleges and schools, Indian residential Schools and students, museums, sports, industries and farming.

The subjects also focus specifically on the various communities the Oblates served in the north, including: Aklavik, Fort Chipewyan, Fort Norman, Fort Rae, Fort Resolution, Fort Simpson, Fort Smith, Inuvik, Yellowknife, as well as many other communities. There are many images of artists’ work at Holman (now Ulukhaktok) on Victoria Island, a cooperative the Oblates, specifically Henri Tardy, were involved in.

This series relates largely to the administration of parishes, missions and other localities within the Vice-Province of MacKenzie, covering the area of northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The records in this series vary according to each mission and parish, but can include codices historici which are daily journals written by the Oblates about the parishes and missions and its surrounding communities, libri animarum which are records of families, histories of given names, dates of births and deaths and marriages accumulated by Oblates, correspondence with the Provincial or the Bursar, correspondence with the local diocese, property and land records, financial reports and accounts, list of personnel, histories of the parish, newsletters, church bulletins, diaries, press clippings and scrapbooks.

Community material can include brochures, censuses, interviews, records of construction, press clippings, advertisements, articles, local planning or committee records, newsletters, genealogy records, project files, weather related material, school yearbooks, bulletins, and pamphlets specific to the locale.

The series also includes textual records and images of various Indian Residential Schools and their surrounding communities, such as Aklavik, Fort Resolution, Fort Simpson, Fort Smith, and Inuvik.

The series includes numerous photographs, negatives and transparencies of local communities, subjects and activities. These include images of missions and churches and convents, residential schools, hospitals, buildings, industry and settlements. Images relate to members of the communities, students, teachers, clergy and nuns. Events include family and community celebrations, religious events, marriages, sports such as hockey, skiing, diving and ice carving, activities such as the Queen’s visit, the Papal visit, gardening, floods, oil work, burials, fires and other experiences of the communities.

The records pertain to the following locations: Aklavik, NWT, Anderson River, NWT, Arctic Red River, NWT, Assumption, AB, Athabasca, AB, Athabasca Lake, AB, Athabasca Lake, SK, Atikameg, AB, Baker Lake, NU, Baillie Island, NWT, Bathurst Inlet, NWT, Bear Lake, NWT, Bernard Harbour, NU, Black Lake, SK, Boothia Peninsula, NU, Bonnyville, AB, Breynat, AB, Burnside River, NWT, Cambridge Bay, NWT, Cameron Bay, NU, Calais, AB, Cape Parry, NWT, Chipewyan Prairie, AB, Colville Lake, NWT, Conklin, AB, Contact Lake, NWT, Coppermine, NWT, Darnley Bay, NWT, Deline, NWT, Detah, NWT, East Three, NWT, Fitzgerald, AB, Fond du Lac, SK, Fort Chipewyan, AB, Fort Fitzgerald, AB, Fort Franklin, NWT, Fort Good Hope, NWT, Fort Liard, NWT, Fort Mckay, AB, Fort McMurray, AB, Fort McPherson, NWT, Fort Nelson, BC, Fort Norman, NWT, Fort Providence, NWT, Fort Rae, NWT, Fort Reliance, NWT, Fort Resolution, NWT, Fort Simpson, NWT, Fort Smith, NWT, Fort Vermillion, AB, Fort Wrigley, NWT, Fox Lake, AB, Frobisher Bay, NU, Goldfield, SK, Great Bear Lake, NWT, Great Slave Lake, NWT, Hay Lake, AB, Hay River, NWT, Hershell Island, NWT, High Level, AB, Holman Island, NWT, Hornaby River, NWT, Horton River, NU, Hunter Bay, SK, Inuvik, NWT, Jean Côté, AB, Jean Marie River, NWT, King William Island, NU, Lac Caribou, MB, Lac La Martre, NWT, Letty Harbour, NWT, Lesser Slave Lake, AB, Mackenzie River, NWT, Makaoo Indian Reserve, NWT, Meander River, AB, Minto Inlet, NWT, Nahanni Butte, NWT, Norman Wells, NWT, North Vermilion, AB, Notikewin, AB, Paulatuk, NWT, Pelly Bay, NWT, Perry River, NWT, Pine Point, NWT, Rae-Edzo, NWT, Reindeer Station, NWT, Repulse Bay, NU, Sachs Harbour, NWT, Seekaskootch Indian Reserve, NWT, Shingle Point, NWT, Slave Lake, AB, Smith, AB, Smith Landing, AB, Snare River, NWT, Snowdrift, NWT, Southhampton, NU, Stanton, NWT, Sturgeon Lake, AB, Sugluk, NU, Teslin Lake, YT, Tree River, NWT, Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Upper Hay, AB, Uranium City, SK, Victoria Island, NWT, Vimy, AB, Waterways, AB, Watson Lake, YT, Webster, AB, and Yellowknife, NWT.

The fonds consists of a history of the Grey Nuns at Lac St. Anne and St. Albert, and bound volumes which have been organized into the following 5 series: The Annales (a Grey Nuns periodical containing news from missions, lists of personnel and short biographies of deceased members of the congregations); General histories; Works written about the Foundress of the Grey Nuns, Saint Marguerite d'Youville; Biographies of the Superiors General; and Miscellaneous items.

This series consists of photographs, negatives, slides and transparencies of various subjects taken in or related to the communities of Canada in the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan. The images were created or collected by the Oblates in the course of their administrative work or personal lives, and the records often reflect their secular interests. The breadth of the subject matter is immense and unique and documents many aspects of western and northern Canada and its peoples. Subjects may include Oblates and religious actors in the various communities, missions, as well as religious events and activities.

The images show communities and activities and include local landscapes, indigenous camps, missions, waterways, fauna, fishing, churches and buildings, indigenous people and families, transportation, hunting, fur trade, trapping, colleges and schools, Indian Residential Schools and students, museums, sports, industries and farming. There are also visiting cards, stereograph cards, school albums and scrapbooks.

The subjects also focus specifically on the various communities the Oblates served in the geographic area of Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, as well as France, Italy, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam.

This sub-series consists of administrative and operational records created and accumulated by the Oblates during their work with the federal government on First Nations affairs and administering education. The records include subjects like Indian Residential Schools, indigenous communities, agencies, reserves, and education. The records consist of correspondence, regulations, policies, bulletins, pay sheets, press releases, facts and figures, conference information, publications, treaty and relief order books.

The fonds consists of textual records relating to the history and genealogies of the Royer, Lambert and Goudreau families, as well as historical research materials for the Beaumont History Book created or collected by Jeannine Goudreau. The records trace the settlement by the pioneers, the history of Beaumont and the growing francophone community in Alberta. Records also relate to significant events in the area including the tornado of 1987, as well as Jeannine Goudreau’s activities as volunteer in Saint-Vital Parish.
The audiovisual material consists of family photos and images of Beaumont and its people, including a photo album with very rare photos of friends and family members. This album holds 3 cabinet cards (albumen prints), 4 cartes de visite (albumen prints) and 31 tintypes which are direct positive images that are laterally reversed of family portraits. There are 3 charcoal crayon portraits included, of Elise Royer, Amanda Royer and Jean Royer.

This sub-series relates to Oblate ownership of properties and related transactions involved in the purchase, management and sales of properties within the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan. There are registers of properties, as well as files containing Land Titles, Titles of Land Transfer, articles of agreement of sales, mortgages and caveats and registers of rental properties.

The material includes records of transactions, accounts, and correspondence from the Lac St. Anne Farm, records of transactions and correspondence from Duck Lake, SK, as well as titles, property evaluations, correspondence, and registers of sales and properties owned by the Oblates in Beaumont, AB, Bon Accord, AB, Calgary, AB, Delmas, SK, Edmonton, AB, Fort Saskatchewan, AB, Lethbridge, AB, McLennan, AB, Okotoks, AB, Prince-Albert, SK, Rivière-Qui-Barre, AB, Saskatoon, SK, St. Albert, AB, St. Paul, AB, Wandering River, AB, and Whitefish Lake, AB.

There are also property records for the Alberta Lacombe Historical Foundation, a development analysis report for the 1st phase of Bishop Grandin Residence, Grandin House display panels on a renovation exhibit, and artifact inventories at the Vital Grandin Centre.

This sub-series includes monographs regarding the 25th anniversary of Monseigneur Vital-Justin Grandin, geographic discoveries of Father Émile Petitot, Métis colonies in St. Paul, and a history of St. Paul diocese.

In the course of their administrative work, the Oblates created, acquired and made use of published sources. The series includes monographs and periodicals regarding various subjects related to the Vice-Province of Grouard. Records were created by Oblates and non-Oblates.

This sub-series includes miscellaneous financial records of the Provincial administration on a variety of subjects, and includes reports, records of investments, financial transactions, deposits and donations, contracts, certificates, leases, statements of account, shareholder lists, denied requests, records of government financial aid, mortgages and property related material, records of pension funds, loans, estates, and correspondence with various companies, organizations, and/or individuals the Oblates were associated with.

This sub-series consists of administrative records created and acquired by the Provincial of Grandin Province to support dealings with bishops, vicars and communities of religious women, and those administrators of dioceses, archdioceses, vicariates and other bodies. The records in this sub-series consist of correspondence, articles, clippings and historical resources, circulars and memoranda on spiritual and theological issues, business matters and concerns in the communities related to education, finances and individuals.

The topics of the records vary according to the bodies involved, but specifically, the records deal with some common themes, including administrative concerns and pastoral duties, diocesan and ecclesiastical affairs, archives and museum work in the province, the administration of the missions and work in other provinces, residential schools and the parishes, as well as the day to day administrative work of these bodies and their interactions with the Oblates.

The fonds consists of letters from Father Collignon of the St. Bernard Mission in Grouard, Alberta to Father Le Serrec of the St. Charles Mission in Dunvegan, Alberta dating from 1889. The fonds also includes photocopies of the letters, and typed transcriptions of the letters into French and English dating from 1987 written by Louise Zuk.

The fonds includes meeting minutes of the council and of the Dames de Saint-Joachim. Also included is an early church register from the late nineteenth century.

The fonds consists of records documenting Léo Piquette's role as a Member of Legislative Assembly, his personal, political and professional life through correspondence, genealogical information compiled by his mother, photographs, scrapbooks with newspaper articles related to his political activity, broadcast documentaries and interviews covering his political career and related to his interest in the Lac La Biche Mission. The material is extensive and include records attesting to his involvement in different organizations and projects, like Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta, regionale de Plamondon, Alberta Catholic School Trustees' Association, Lakeland County Rate Payers Association, Fédération des conseils scolaires francophones de l'Alberta, Conseil scolaire Centre-Est, Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité (RDEE) Canada, Society of Lac La Biche Mission, Premiere Peat Moss, Pulpmill: Poachers Landing, and the dissolution of the village of Plamondon.

In the course of their administrative work, the Oblates created, acquired and made use of published sources. This series consists of published monographs and periodicals on the subjects of the Oblates, the Roman Catholic Church, its missions, residential schools, and the indigenous population of the Canadian west and the Northwest Territories. The material includes administrative circulars sent by Oblate Superiors General to the Congregation members, outlining spiritual and temporal deeds and accomplishments. The series also consists of indigenous periodicals from various communities. Records were created by Oblates and non-Oblates.

This sub-series includes monographs created by the Oblate Grandin Province administration, individual Oblates, and non-Oblates on a variety of subjects, and acquired by the organization in the course of its work. The published works relate to the subjects of Canadian history, orphanages, Indian Residential Schools (IRS) and abuse, indigenous culture, and history, the Oblates’ history and their missions, biographies, memoirs, anniversaries and milestones, training literature, pilgrimages, politics, the Lubicon settlement, Pope John Paul II, and various communities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Newfoundland and Labrador. The published letters of Oblate founder, Eugène de Mazenod are also included.

This sub-series consists of correspondence to and from Bishop Grouard the Vicar of Missions, regarding education in Athabasca.

This sub-series consists of records relating to the administration of various scholasticates, a college-level school for those preparing for entry to the seminary and membership in a Roman Catholic religious order. The records include correspondence, personnel lists, acts of visits, articles, scholastic and historical notes, publications, admission conditions, scholastic files, financial reports, retreat programs, Codici Historici, minutes, observations and seminarian accounts.

Fonds consists of photographs depicting Alexander McCulloch and Hollis Clayton Freeman, a North West Mounted Police (NWMP) officer, and various family members. Fonds also includes a photograph of construction of the Archbishop's Palace in Edmonton, Alberta.

The fonds consists of a Catholic missal written in Woods Cree dating from 1895 belonging to Josephine Ladoucer.

The Laity sub-series consists of a Gamache genealogical family tree, manuscript and grammar book in Rabbitskin, and a Dogrib noun dictionary collected or created by non-Oblates.

The series consists of financial records that document all financial activities and transactions completed, directly or indirectly by the Oblates in the course of the work performed in Grandin Province. The records consist of correspondence and transactions related to Oblate properties and the management and sale of buildings and lands, as well as financial reports and accounts.

This sub-series relates to Oblate ownership of properties and related transactions involved in the purchase, management and sales of properties within Grandin Province and the Northwest Territories. The series also includes catalogued lists of artifacts owned by the Oblates with accompanying photographs. There are also insurance appraisals, project meeting minutes, legal opinions, correspondence, agreements, newsletters, histories, reports, tax notices and receipts, and land titles.

The records specifically relate to properties in Beaver Lake, AB, Calgary, AB, Candle Lake, SK, Canmore, AB, Duck Lake, SK, Edmonton, AB, Enoch Cree Nation, AB, Falher, AB, Fort Smith, NWT, Girouxville, AB, Lac La Biche, AB, Lac St. Anne, AB, Red Deer, AB, Shaw’s Point, AB, St-Albert, AB, and Yellowknife, NWT.

This sub-series consists of material created by and/or collected by individuals outside the Oblate congregation, and consists of a wide variety of records including: organizational records, minutes and correspondence, certificates, sermons and speeches, event notes, financial records and account books, a list of parishioners and mass books.

This sub-series consists of wills and accompanying correspondence relating to the wills and inheritance of individual Oblates.

This sub-series consists of images created and/or collected by individual Oblates over the course of their careers, and can consist of a wide variety of records documenting various aspects of numerous communities in Alberta and British Columbia. The sub-series may also include images of various Oblates in their working and their personal lives, of buildings, towns and surrounding areas, missions and institutions, and people, families and also events such as parties, convocations, baptisms, weddings and funerals held at the various missions.

These communities include: Calais, AB, Dawson Creek, BC, Donnelly, AB, Grouard, AB, Edmonton, AB, Falher, AB, Fort Dunvegan, AB, Fort Norman, NWT, Fort Vermilion, AB, Fox Lake, AB, High Prairie, AB, Hondo, AB, Joussard, AB, Kathleen, AB, Lac Poisson Blanc, QC, McLennan, AB, Peace River, AB, St. Isidore, AB, Sturgeon Lake, AB, Wabasca, AB, and Watino, AB.

This series contains records of a personal nature, belonging to, or created or collected by individual Oblates over the course of their careers in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the Arctic. The Vice-Province of Grouard administered the records, and they may include personal papers of Oblates who served in related or predecessor organizations. The records consist of photo albums of Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) organizations, missions, nuns, and clergy in Alberta and British Columbia.

This sub-series consists of records related to the administration of Séminaire de la Sainte Famille, a seminary for those preparing to take holy orders. The records include rules and admission conditions, rejected postulants, correspondence, booklets of and copied letters. The sub-series also includes a file related to the Kisemanito Centre in Grouard, Alberta.

The fonds consists of French military papers, financial records of the St-Vincent Roman Catholic parish and general store, a booklet in French on teaching French in Alberta, an unpublished handwritten novel in French, original articles and research notes handwritten by Alexandre Mahé, correspondence in French with the Franco-Albertan and French elite in Edmonton in the 1930s as well as with family, various newspapers in French holding articles written by Alexandre Mahé or collected by him, and Bulletins France Libre published during World War II. Also included is a list of parishioners of the Saint-Vincent parish and a map covering a region in Africa where Alexandre Mahé spent 12 years.

The sub-series consists of records pertaining to various institutions and organizations the Oblates either established, administered or were involved with, including Juniorat/Collège Saint-Jean, La Survivance / Le Franco-Albertain.

The Oblates established the Saint-Jean school in Pincher Creek, Alberta, in 1908. It was founded as a Juniorat, a place to instruct junior members preparing for life in the Oblate order. In 1910, the Juniorat Saint-Jean was moved to Edmonton, and in 1943, renamed Collège Saint-Jean. Over time, religious instruction gradually included more general courses and the institution grew more closely affiliated with the University of Alberta. It became Collège universitaire Saint-Jean in 1970, and following the sale of the college to the University of Alberta in 1976, was renamed Faculté Saint-Jean in 1977. It was renamed Campus Saint-Jean in 2005.

The records in this subseries consist of the administrative and operational records of the Juniorat Saint-Jean and Collège Saint-Jean, from the time of its founding to sale to the University of Alberta. The sub-series also includes some educational and related records.

Specifically, the records relate to administration of the school, and include correspondence, financial accounts and reports, contracts and agreements, budgets and accounts, staffing and alumni related records, committee material, and records of maintenance and renovation and construction work, as well as property insurance and evaluation records. Also included in the sub-series are various daily registers and codices historici.

Operational records include those related to courses, curricula, yearbooks and graduations, as well as staff and student histories and biographical information. The sub-series also includes numerous personal records and pedagogical materials of faculty and students, such as notes, journals, brochures and publications, as well as photographs and photograph albums.

The fonds is composed of books and instructional material specific to or collected by the order, including also two photographs.

The fonds consists of the research materials of Georges Durocher, and includes research notes from French newspapers, a 1944 financial report from the Morinville church, a 1919 Brethren of the Pine Service book, newspapers and newspaper clippings, and sheet music for 'La Complainte de Shortis.'

Fonds consists of a tax notice and minutes dating from January 14, 1908 to February 25, 1950 of St. Leon Roman Catholic Public School District No. 4.

The series consists of financial records that document all financial transactions completed, directly or indirectly by the Oblates in the course of the work performed for the Vice-Province of Mackenzie. The records consist of records pertaining to various financial requests.

This sub-series includes records pertaining to various financial requests.

This series relates largely to the administration and life of parishes, missions and other localities in Alberta that were within the Vice-Province of Grouard, including the Peace River, Grouard and Slave Lake regions. The records in this series vary according to each mission and parish, but includes codices historici which are daily journals written by the Oblates about the parishes and missions and its surrounding communities, as well as images of local activities, including community sports and activities, landscapes, lakes, churches, missions, buildings, individuals, and groups.

The series also includes textual and photographic records related to various Indian Residential Schools and their surrounding communities, such as Grouard, Assumption, Joussard and Sturgeon Lake / Calais.

The records pertain to the following locations: Atikameg, AB, Athabasca, AB, Assumption, AB, Big Prairie, AB, Breynat, AB, Calais, AB, Cape Parry, NWT, Chard, AB, Conklin, AB, Crooked Creek, AB, Desmarais, AB, Donnelly, AB, Eaglesham, AB, Falher, AB, Faust, AB, Fort Dunvegan, AB, Girouxville, AB, Grouard, AB, Gunnar Mine, AB, High Prairie, AB, Hobbema [Maskwacis], AB, Jean Côté, AB, Joussard, AB, Kinuso, AB, Lesser Slave Lake, AB, Marie Reine, AB, Marten River, AB, McLennan, AB, Meander River, AB, Paddle Prairie, AB, Peace River, AB, Peavine Prairie, AB, Prairie Echo, AB, Shaw’s Point, AB, Slave Lake, AB, Spirit River, AB, Steen River, AB, Sturgeon Lake, AB, Tangent, AB, Wabasca, AB, and Wanham, AB.

This sub-series covers a wide range of economic activities, ranging from management of funds and properties to dealings with individuals, corporations, parishes, vicariates, and with Rome on financial matters. Specifically, the records include correspondence regarding property acquisitions, ownership and sales, which includes other material such as municipal tax papers, office leases, property descriptions and evaluations, rent, financial reports and evaluations, property plans and construction details.

The sub series also includes correspondence with the Procure from Rome and of Paris, the general commissary of Rome, the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, the Vicariate Apostolic as well as various parishes, missions, seminaries, noviciates, scholasticates, and Indian Residential Schools (IRS). Furthermore, there are Lacombe Memorial Fund records such as correspondence and various bursaries.

The fonds consist of postcards from family and friends in France, received or collected by Jules Bidault.

The fonds consists of photos and post cards of various Edmonton and Alberta based associations as well as correspondence from the Chevaliers de Colombe (Knights of Columbus).

The fonds consists of Charlie Sinclair’s monthly report card from the Bellerose (Roman Catholic) School District No. 6 and George Sinclair’s report card from the Edmonton Public School.

The fonds consists of Églande Mercier’s diaries, spanning, with gaps, from 1936 to 2010; an autographs book with notes from her friends and colleagues from 1934 to 1940; family papers, including personal correspondence; farm and Mercier & Germaine Plumbing & Heating business papers; material from the Fédération des femmes canadiennes-françaises de l’Alberta, Les Amis du fléché and Sainte-Anne Parish from Edmonton (closed in 2014).

This sub-series includes miscellaneous financial records accumulated by the Provincial administration on a variety of subjects over time, and includes minutes from the Grandin Provident Fund Trust, old bonds, financial records of the Bank of Commerce, and debit and credit accounts of the Air Transport Division of Roman Catholic Missions of Mackenzie.

The fonds consists of images related to D.C Cranston's life in Alberta and features images of the staging area of Burnsites on their way to Beaverlodge, Alberta, Athabasca Landing, a wagon overturned on the trail, cutting wood, the S.S. Northern Light on Lessler Slave Lake, a wagon boarding the ferry at the Peace River Crossing, the first home of Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Smith, the first post office at Lake Saskatoon, the second annual sports day at Lake Saskatoon, the first wedding in Beaverlodge, the Beaverlodge baseball team, a log cabin, Ralph Carrel and Jake Glesnet at Grande Prairie.

The fonds also comprises photographs related to Maud Clifford including images featuring the first church at Spirit River, the Anglican mission house at Spirit River, the Hudson's Bay Company post at Dunvegan, the Roman Catholic Church at Bear Creek, and the home of Rev. Alexander Forbes at Flying Shot Lake.

The fonds also includes photographs featuring the Beaverlodge Experimental Farm including photographs featuring the experimental; and images featuring the Beaverlodge region including images featuring a picnic day, picking currents, binding grain, the first automobile to reach Grande Prairie from Edmonton over the Edson Trail, a cutter constructer on the front bob of a sleigh, and sunflowers. The photographs date from 1909 to 1921.

This sub-series of records consists of financial directives of the provincial administration, and powers of attorney for the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan.

This sub-series relates to financial activities dealing with debts and loans with various individuals and organizations. Specifically, the records consist of claims, correspondence, mortgages, accounting records, financial reports, legal documents related to individuals, the Missionary Oblates of St. Boniface, the North Battleford school council, Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Evron, Misericordia Sisters and/or the St. Mary’s Province.