Ahenakew, Andrew (Rev.)
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File contains a black and white photograph of the Reverend Andrew Ahenakew, Anglican clergyman and Cree healer.
A group of Indigenous peoples in western clothes taken inside of the Rectory in Hobbema Alberta. From left to right, seated and then standing: Miss Goodeye, Marie Louise Little Child, Marguerite Kanowalch-Biche, Eugenie Cardinal, Johnny Little Child. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Photograph of the Montagnais Children with Father Ernest Lacombe taken on the Cold Lake Reserve.From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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See also S-B6550.Historical note:
"Born at Sandy Lake on June 11, 1885, this grandnephew of Chief Poundmaker attended the missionary school on the Sandy Lake Reserve, and then the boarding school in Prince Albert, where he proved an able scholar and an impressive athlete. After boarding school Ahenakew returned to Sandy Lake, where he assisted his father until he was invited to teach at a missionary school on the James Smith Reserve.Historical note:
Rev. John Richard Matheson was the husband of Dr. Elizabeth (Scott) Matheson. They were married in 1891, and she went with him to the Anglican mission on a reserve at Onion Lake, 200 miles Northwest of Saskatoon. As well as a missionary, he served as builder, rancher and trader to finance their work. After she completed medical studies at his urging, he built her a small mission hospital at Onion Lake, and the couple ran a mission school there.Historical note:
Reverend Hunt oversaw the construction of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Stanley Mission between 1854 and 1860, today the oldest standing building in the province. See also S-B6546.Historical note:
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