Tuesday, 29 November 2011
This photo from Canada Archives of Dene teepees and the Revillon Freres Post in La Loche was taken between June 30-July 2, 1918 by the Franklin Kitto Expedition. Franklin Kitto's men wanted to attend the services after stopping at the HBC post at West La Loche. Mr. Kitto worked for " Natural Resources Intelligence Branch" Ottawa. He writes the following description:
"at the Mission adjoining Revillon's post on the east side of the lake"
"Arriving at the Mission we found that a couple of priests from Lac la Plonge were conducting a series of services extending over a period of two weeks, and the Indians from the country-side to the extent of two or three hundred were gathered in attendance. Row after row of tepees lined the beach and clustered about the few wooden buildings of the post. The entire families had come from far and near bringing all their worldly possessions with them and the place was alive with children and dogs." ...link
Father Petitot visited a Dene teepee village at Portage La Loche in 1862.
This Dene tent village of 150 may have had 20 to 30 tents.
'canot du nord' This type of H.B.C. freighter canoe brought Governor Dallas to the Portage in 1862.
The people at the Portage in 1862:
More than 150 people were living on Lac La Loche in 1862.
They had houses at La Loche, West La Loche and scattered around the lake.
In 1862 most were gathered in tents at the Portage as they did every year to trade and to work with the brigades.
This year they awaited the visit of Bishop Grandin and the new governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Friday, 25 November 2011
Thursday, 24 November 2011
|Bike parade on Canada Day in La Loche|
The Dene spent the winters in caribou hunting camps north of the Clearwater River and returned every summer to the lakes south of the Clearwater. On Lac La Loche, Garson Lake, Turnor Lake, Peter Pond Lake, Churchill Lake and Lac Ile a la Crosse many Dene summer camps became permanent settlements. La Loche was
one of these summer camps.
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Friday, 11 November 2011
|Beauval Residential School in 1924. The boys dormitory was on the top floor.|
....see this school in 1908
The fire of 1927 in Beauval.
The epidemic of 1936 in Beauval.
Friday, 4 November 2011
Thursday, 3 November 2011
|Boreal forest in northern Saskatchewan (Lac La Loche)|
north of the Clearwater River and returned every summer to the lakes south of the Clearwater.
On Lac La Loche, Garson Lake, Turnor Lake, Peter Pond Lake, Churchill Lake and Lac Ile a la Crosse many Dene summer camps became permanent settlements. La Loche was one of these summer camps.
Swan Lake was the main winter hunting camp for the residents of La Loche in 1895.
It no longer exists and its location on Swan Lake (previously thought to be on Careen Lake) is unknown.
The location of Swan Lake has been found. See below.