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Archival description
Bands sub-series
PR0003.001SF.0004.0003 · Sub-series · 1956-2002
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This sub-series consists of the records created and accumulated by the Oblates in the course of their dealings with various bands. This sub-series relates to the Lubicon settlement and includes records such as memos, correspondence, agreements, court records, press clippings, pamphlets, Justice and Peace committee records, chronology of events, land claims, reports, and decisions. There are also records that relate to the Dene nation such as publications, land claims, constitutions, reorganizations, political developments, assemblies, Dene model of government, educations, negotiations with government, newsletters, pipeline opposition and boycotts, and conferences and their ties to groups such as the National Dene Nation Office and the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC).

Bands sub-series
PR0003.002SF.0004.0006 · Sub-series · 1935-1970
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This sub-series consists of the records created and accumulated by the Oblates in the course of their dealings with various bands. This sub-series relates to various bands such as the Blackfoot, Blood, Alexis, Alexander, Enoch and Hay Lake and includes records such as membership lists, meeting reports, council meeting minutes, education committee meetings, petitions, and federal-provincial meetings.

Cinefilm and Video series
PR0003.003SF.0006 · Series · 1931-1976
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

The series consists of records created or acquired by the Oblates of the Vice-Province of Mackenzie in Alberta, the Northwest Territories and the Arctic. The recordings consist of amateur footage and produced material, and subjects may include Oblate home movies, various communities, missions, schools and residential schools, religious events and activities.

The film and video includes recordings of pilgrimages, carnivals, nuns, nurses and convents, local buildings and hospitals, stables, camps, local people and families, their communities, the timber industry, transportation, sports, and indigenous peoples of Canada’s north.

Cinefilm and Video series
PR0003.001SF.0007 · Series · [1931]-2002
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

The series consists of recordings created and collected by the Oblates of Grandin Province, and primarily relate to Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Arctic. The records consist of professional and amateur recordings of events such as anniversaries, vow and ordination celebrations, Christmas activities, conferences, pilgrimages, and funerals. Documentary subjects include the forest, the Inuit, Dene and Cree, various Oblates, Castle Mountain, and cultures and indigenous peoples of Alberta and the north. In addition, there are recordings of masses and programs such as “Reflections”.

Cinefilm and Video series
PR0003.002SF.0007 · Series · [1946?]-1984
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

The series consists of recordings created and collected by the Oblates of the Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan, and primarily relate to Alberta, the Northwest Territories and the Arctic. The records consist of professional and amateur film and videos of events in various First Nations communities and include religious events such as masses, vow and ordination celebrations, Christmas activities, weddings and funerals.

The film and video includes recordings of sports and outdoor activities and events such as hockey, fishing, dogsledding, snowshoeing and snowmobiling. The films also show nuns, students, nurses, local buildings and hospitals, transportation and infrastructure, highways, lakes and boats. In addition, the series includes recordings of the First Nations people and families and many aspects of their communities.

Cinefilm and Video series
PR0003.0007 · Series · 2005-2016
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 OMI Lacombe Canada such as Quebec and British Columbia. The records consist of documentaries of Indian Residential Schools (IRS) in Quebec, and of Dunbow Residential School in Alberta, on the Inuit, and on Oblate parishes and missions and the 100th anniversary mass in Maillardville in British Columbia.

Education sub-series
PR0003.002SF.0004.0008 · Sub-series · 1847-1973
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Education sub-series
PR0003.003SF.0003.0003 · Sub-series · 1953-1972
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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 First Nation schooling and education in the Vice-Province of Mackenzie. This sub-series includes school requests, Indian Residential School (IRS) teacher’s books, indigenous religious material, supervisor convention and reunion records, and Inuit IRS education records.

PR0003.001SF.0004.0001 · Sub-series · 1958-2003
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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. This sub-series includes records related to Canada’s Aboriginal Action Plan, Memoranda of Understanding and government regulations on Indian Residential School education.

PR0003.002SF.0004.0003 · Sub-series · 1882-1971
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

First Nations Affairs series
PR0003.0004 · Series · 1936-2017
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

The series contains records pertaining to the Oblates’ specific involvement with the First Nations, directly or indirectly. The series includes mining records on the Dog Rib First Nation, a DVD about the Lubicon land claim and photocopies of photographs from a Williams Lake residential school photo album. It also includes Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) project records, articles, books, transcripts and workshops on the culture of Indigenous peoples, specifically the Inuit and Blackfoot, and Indigenous languages such as Anishinâbe, Ojibway, Syllabics, and Kitchitwa Miteh.

First Nations Affairs series
PR0003.002SF.0004 · Series · 1847-1983
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

First Nations Affairs series
PR0003.003SF.0003 · Series · [188?]-1991
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

First Nations Affairs series
PR0003.001SF.0004 · Series · 1873-2003
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.001SF.0004.0002 · Sub-series · 1994-1999
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This sub-series consists of the administrative records accumulated by the Oblates in the course of their dealings with various First Nations Associations. The sub-series includes an Aboriginal Healing Foundation Program handbook and an interview with Chief Phil Fontaine of the Assembly of First Nations, on matrimonial real property.

PR0003.002SF.0004.0005 · Sub-series · [1945]-1972
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This sub-series consists of the administrative records created and accumulated by the Oblates in the course of their dealings with various First Nations Associations. The records have been created primarily by the various local, provincial and national organizations. This sub-series includes records from the Catholic Indian League such as correspondence, minutes, constitutions, administrative papers, briefs, petitions, newsletters, membership registers, and historical information. There are also records from the Indian Association of Alberta and they include minutes, secretary’s files, conferences, talks, resolutions, petitions, submissions, amendments to the Indian Act, administrative papers, and bulletins. In addition, there are records from the Eskimo Association of Canada such as minutes, correspondence, newsletters, articles, and bulletins. Furthermore, there are conference records for the National Indian Council of Canada, newsletters from the Native Brotherhood Society, progress reports for the Native Development Apostolate, and reports from the Saskatchewan Indian Women’s Conference.

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
Institutions series
PR0003.003SF.0004 · Series · 1922-1984
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This series consists of records created or acquired in the course of the administration of institutions established or maintained by the Oblates in the Vice-Province of Mackenzie. 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 administration of educational institutions, including local community and mission schools, residential schools, as well as administrative records of institutions for religious training and retreat.

Laity sub-series
PR0003.002SF.0013.0002 · Sub-series · 1866-1987
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.002SF.0004.0001 · Sub-series · 1937- 1982
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This sub-series consists of records created or acquired by the Oblate Indian-Eskimo Council and its predecessors. The Council was established in Ottawa in 1936 as the Indian Welfare and Training Commission, the goal of which was to coordinate Oblate apostolic work in First Nations missions. This would expand to include the work in the missions, coordinate educational and legal objectives, and to represent, safeguard and enhance the interests of this work to the federal government. The commission was a national organization made up of an administrative committee and those responsible for missions, that is, Oblate Bishops, Vicars Apostolic (later Vice-Provincials) and the Provincials of the Canadian Provinces. The commission was known variously as the Indian and Eskimo Welfare Commission, the Indian and Eskimo Welfare Commission of the Oblates, and the Oblate Indian-Eskimo Council. In 1962, Indianescom was established as a civil corporation alongside the religious organization of the Council. As the Oblates reduced their roles in Indian Residential Schools, Indianescom became more of a liaison body with the federal government and represented the Oblates mostly on federal policy. Both the Oblate Indian-Eskimo Council and Indianescom were dissolved in 1976.

The records in this sub-series include Council records, national and provincial material relevant to the province, administration and financial records, and education records acquired in the course of the life of the Council. This includes correspondence, reports of annual meetings, finances, reports and studies, articles and handbooks, circulars and bulletins and various publications, as well as some material that postdates the Commission. There are also audio recordings of various conference presentations.

PR0003.001SF.0013.0001 · Sub-series · 1871-2005
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.003SF.0012.0001 · Sub-series · 1860-1995
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.002SF.0013.0001 · Sub-series · 1847-1986
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Periodicals sub-series
PR0003.003SF.0010.0002 · Sub-series · 1861-1991
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Personal Papers series
PR0003.001SF.0013 · Series · 1871-2005
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Personal Papers series
PR0003.002SF.0013 · Series · 1847-1987
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Personal Papers series
PR0003.003SF.0012 · Series · 1860-1995
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.001SF.0006 · Series · [188-?]-2005
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This series consists of photographs, negatives, slides and transparencies of various subjects taken in or related to the communities of western and northern Canada in Grandin Province. 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 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, transportation, hunting, fur trade, trapping, colleges and schools, Indian Residential Schools and students, museums, sports, industries and farming. There are also visiting cards, and albums.

The subjects also focus specifically on the various communities the Oblates served in the geographic area of Grandin Province, notably in Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories, as well as Bangladesh, Europe and Mexico.

Also, there are plans of a mission Church in Goodfish Lake as well as newspaper clippings, correspondence, and card visits.

PR0003.002SF.0004.0002 · Sub-series · 1923-1974
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

The Propagation of the Faith in the Missions was a body responsible for studying evangelical problems in the various missions. This sub-series includes records from the Propagation of the Faith in the Missions such as mission reports, indigenous evangelization plans, religious instruction courses, Blackfoot catechisms, and prayers and songs in Cree.

PR0003.002SF · Sous-fonds · 1842-1990
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 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.

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan
PR0003.003SF.0001 · Series · 1855-1990
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 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.

PR0003.002SF.0001.0011 · Sub-series · 1853-1986
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.0001.0007 · Sub-series · 1864-2016
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.003SF.0001.0008 · Sub-series · 1855-1988
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

Publications series
PR0003.003SF.0010 · Series · 1855-1991
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, 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.

Schools sub-series
PR0003.003SF.0004.0001 · Sub-series · 1943-1984
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

The sub-series relates to the creation and administration of various schools including Indian Residential Schools (IRS) in the Vice-Province of Mackenzie area. There were no Oblate established or administered residential schools within the Vice-Province, but the schools were administered by the Roman Catholic Church, Diocese of Mackenzie, and cover the Northwest Territories and Fort Chipewyan in Alberta.

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 sub-series consists of records created or accumulated in the course of the administration and operation of Roman Catholic residential schools, as well as various separate schools within the Vice-Province, including those related to the Fort Chipewyan Separate School District 57 and others. 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, registers of academic progress, attendance registers, photographs, films and yearbooks.

The sub-series includes records created or acquired related to the following institutions under the responsibility of the Catholic Church, but where Oblates were involved: Aklavik, N.W.T., Immaculate Conception; Fort Chipewyan, AB, Holy Angels; Fort Simpson, N.W.T., Lapointe Hall; Fort Smith, N.W.T., Grandin College.

Sound Recordings series
PR0003.003SF.0007 · Series · [1938]-1990
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 Vice-Province of Mackenzie. The recordings were created primarily at institutions the Oblates established or lived in: churches, missions, and First Nations communities. The recordings were created, collected or acquired by the Oblates of the Vice-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. A large number of the records were created by Oblate researchers, likely Robert Le Meur (1920-1985), and Maurice Métayer (1914-1974), who served in the Vicariate of Mackenzie.

Le Meur and Métayer conducted their own research and collaborated on various projects. They both served in various missions in the north, Le Meur from the 1940s to the 1980s, and Métayer, from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Specifically, the Le Meur and the Métayer recordings relate to research conducted by them in the north. The priests sought information on the culture, lives, history and religion of the Indigenous peoples, and they recorded the interviews, songs and stories of their research, providing insight into the lives of the people of northern Canada. There is a vast wealth of their written research in the Oblate fonds as well, related to genealogies, grammars and published stories and other writings.

Specifically, the records in this sound series consist of educational and historical themed material, recordings of masses, religious and secular ceremonies, lectures, sermons and religious commentaries, as well as radio broadcasts of songs, and recordings of stories and interviews. The stories, interviews and songs are often in First Nations languages, and English and French. Records are both created by amateurs, and professionally produced.

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.

Sound Recordings series
PR0003.002SF.0008 · Series · [1940]-1987
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 Province of Alberta-Saskatchewan. The recordings were created primarily at institutions the Oblates established or were involved in: churches, missions, and Indian Residential Schools in Western Canada, at the Charles Camsell Hospital or at the francophone CHFA Radio station based out of Edmonton. 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.

Specifically, the records consist of educational and historical themed material, masses, ceremonies, lectures, sermons and Gospel commentaries, as well as personal memoirs and recordings broadcast on CHFA Radio. The masses and ceremonies are often in First Nations languages, and English and French. There are programs from the schools and hospitals in Cree, and numerous Indigenous traditional songs as well as religious hymns and carols. Records are both created by amateurs, and professionally produced.

PR0003.003SF.0003.0004 · Sub-series · [188-?]-1976
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This sub-series consists of records created and acquired by the Oblates to support evangelical efforts, education administration in First Nations communities and relations with various groups in the Mackenzie region. 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 is wide-ranging, and include studies 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 in Canada. These records also consist of grammar dictionaries, religious texts and histories written by various Oblates.

PR0003.001SF.0004.0004 · Sub-series · 1873-2003
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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 Metis. The themes of the material is wide-ranging, and include material on Louis Riel and the 1885 rebellion, the St. Laurent of Grandin colony, Batoche National Historic Site, 65th Mount Royal Rifles in Western Canada, Métis and Non-Status Indians in Saskatchewan, and index cards on the 1885 Rebellion and Louis Riel. There are biographies on Frank Anderson, Poundmaker and Louis Schmidt. There are also records regarding the centennial of the Riel Rebellion as well as publications such as a booklet by Louis David Riel titled “Poésies Religieuses et Politiques”, pamphlet on the official opening of Gabriel’s Bridge over the South Saskatchewan River, original letters written by Louis Riel to his uncle, aunt and mother, and newspaper clippings and articles on Louis Riel, the 1885 Rebellion and the Frog Lake Massacre. In addition, there are other records such as certificate of gifts for donated records to the Girouxville museum and correspondence and newsletters regarding the Riel Project. The sub-series also contains Cree grammar and songs and prayers in other indigenous languages as well as articles on the indigenous populations of Western Canada such as the Dene and the Inuit.

PR0003.002SF.0004.0009 · Sub-series · 1874-1983
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

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.

PR0003.0004.0002 · Sub-series · 1936-2017
Part of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), Lacombe Canada fonds

This sub-series consists of records created and acquired by the Oblates to support evangelical efforts, education in First Nations communities and relations with various groups. The studies and the research are created by Oblates and non-Oblates, and include studies on First Nations and Metis. The themes of the material are wide-ranging, and includes Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) project records, articles, books, transcripts and workshops on the culture of Indigenous peoples, specifically the Inuit and Blackfoot, and Indigenous languages such as Anishinâbe, Ojibway, Syllabics, and Kitchitwa Miteh.

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
PR0003.003SF · Sous-fonds · 1855-1995
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 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.

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Vice-Province of Mackenzie