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Archival description
PR0003.002SF.0009 · Series · 1858-1975
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

The series consists of published and unpublished maps collected and acquired by the Oblates to document properties owned and maintained by the Church, and for reference purposes.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).

Grandin Province sous-fonds
PR0003.001SF · Sous-fonds · 1847-2005
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Grandin Province
Monographs sub-series
PR0003.001SF.0011.0001 · Sub-series · 1891-2005
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.0001 · Series · 1961-2016
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This series consists of records that document the management functions of the Oblates in the course of the work performed throughout OMI Lacombe in the west. 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.

PR0003.001SF.0001 · Series · 1854-2005
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.002SF.0001 · Series · 1842-1990
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Publications series
PR0003.001SF.0011 · Series · 1891-2005
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Publications series
PR0003.004SF.0006 · Series · 1884-1986
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Publications series
PR0003.0009 · Series · 1984-2013
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

In the course of their administrative work, the Oblates created, acquired and made use of published resources. This series consists of published monographs and periodicals on the subject of the Oblates, the Anglican and the Roman Catholic Church, its missions, and the indigenous population of western Canada. Records were created by Oblates and non-Oblates.

PR0003.001SF.0001.0006 · Sub-series · 1911-2005
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This sub-series consists of administrative records created or acquired by the Oblates in dealing with various publishing companies or in the course of the administration of its publishing companies in Grandin Province.

The publishing companies allowed for access to the various Francophone communities served by the Congregation. The records include administrative correspondence related to the personnel, operation, sales and maintenance of Compagnie la Bonne Presse limitée, Imprimerie Canadienne, the La Survivance building and Le Franco-Albertain.

This sub-series specifically contains records related to dealings with the Western Canadian Publishers, which was originally known as the Canadian Publishing Company. It was responsible for publishing the Western Canada Weekly, founded by German Oblates in 1907 as well as other papers. In 1925 financial difficulties pushed the Oblates to purchase the property and equipment and reconstructed the company as Canadian Publishers Ltd. The records include texts and publishing files, bylaws, correspondence, contracts, agreements, annual reports, administrative council records, executive committee records, distribution, advertising and financial material. There are conference records and material related to the Colloque Histoire des OMI Conference and the Histoire des oblats dans l’Ouest Conference.

In addition, there are records for La Survivance, a weekly newspaper publication of l'Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta (ACFA) which was first published in 1928. From 1967 to 1979, it ran under the title Le franco-albertain and from 1979 onward, it has been run under the title Le franco. The records relate to the administration of the newspaper, and also to the building maintained by the Oblates and include building, structure and property appraisals, plans, blueprints, tax assessments, and records of maintenance repairs.

PR0003.002SF.0001.0008 · Sub-series · 1919-1982
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This sub-series consists of records created or acquired in the course of the administration of publishing companies established or maintained by the Oblates in the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan.

The publishing companies allowed for access to the various Francophone communities served by the Congregation. In 1928 the Association Canadienne-Française de l'Alberta (ACFA) decided to establish its own paper in Edmonton, Alberta, called La Survivance, and an accompanying printing company, La Survivance Printing Ltd.. Imprimerie Canadienne Ltd. was incorporated in October the same year and a contract was signed with La Survivance Printing Ltd. on the 16th of February 1929 stipulating that the latter was to lease, use and maintain the printing machines of Imprimerie Canadienne Ltd. All three companies, La Survivance Printing Ltd., La Survivance, and Imprimerie Canadienne Ltd., were financed and controlled by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Despite the financial problems of the journal, the Oblates provided financing and unpaid qualified workers until 1973, when the journal (which had changed its name to Le Franco-Albertain in 1967) and the printing company were sold to ACFA for the symbolic amount of 1 dollar. The paper would eventually become Le Franco.

The Oblates published Le Patriot de l’Ouest out of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, after acquiring the paper when the former publisher, la Bonne Presse limitée, was liquidated in 1933. The Oblates operated the paper under Le Patriote Publishing Company. In 1941, the paper merged with the Winnipeg newspaper La liberté to form Liberté et le patriote.

The records include administrative correspondence related to the personnel, operation, sales and maintenance of Compagnie la Bonne Presse limitée, Imprimerie Canadienne, the La Survivance building and Le Frano-Albertain.

Sound Recordings series
PR0003.001SF.0008 · Series · 1961-2002
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

The series consists of recordings created in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories and beyond the geographical limits of the Oblate Grandin Province. The recordings were created, collected or acquired by the Oblates of the Province in the course of their administrative and evangelization activities, and therefore the themes of the recordings are wide-ranging. The records include a number of religious themes and document the personal thoughts and viewpoints of a number of Oblates and highlight First Nations cultures and languages.

The series consists of recordings from Radio-Canada about the history of the Oblates and “Le matin de la fête” show. There are also recordings regarding the history of the church in the West, indigenous missions, relationships between the OMI and other religious denominations, the Métis and the 1885 Rebellion, OMI education, the state of the future, various interviews, sermons, songs, conferences, retreats, messages, anniversaries, prayers, hymns, biblical theologies, Easter, funerals, memorials, masses, marriages, homages, CHFA radio station, talks, and Pope John Paul II.

PR0003.004SF · Sous-fonds · 1849-1994
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Vice-Province of Grouard