Calendar. Easter Sunday. History of the Resurrection: I. Holy Women Going to the Sepulchre; II Mary Magdalen. Sacred History: Joseph's Brethren in Egypt.
Ken Collier knew Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady during the 1960s. He describes his time spent talking with both men and contrasts them in character and politics.
Lawrence Cook knew Jim Brady in 1949/50. He talks about the CCF government policies and how the people reacted to them, the Legion, and the various Co-op efforts that were tried in Cumberland. He is the only informant to talk about efforts by Brady to organize a Metis Association in Cumberland in 1949.
Mr. Laliberte was involved in the early establishment of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan and talks about conditions in the north and how the Metis Association has improved them.
Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times
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E. S. Brooks
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Chapter in book: Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times.
Entire book on one pdf. Scroll to page 208 to read chapter.
A set of 25 photographs of Jemima Charles and Lydia McKenzie showing the making of bannock in a pan. Bannock can be made quickly and is ideal for life in the bush as it needs no long rising time in a warm place like bread does.
Three elders from Goodfish Lake Reserve talk about problems of defining accurate boundaries, their rights to a timber berth, and hay meadows which they believe are part of their reserve.
Murdoch Charles is a trapper and prospector from Stanley Mission. He tells a few details of the mining operation at Nistowiak Falls and from his experience in the bush, discusses Brady's disappearance and what a bushman would do if he was lost.
Autobiography of Leslie Garrett, born 1898 into a religious family in England. He became a minister of the Church of England after emigrating to Canada in 1913. In 1923 he was assigned to Big Trout Lake, ON, and did missionary work among the Aboriginal population for 31 years. In 1953 he moved to Loon Lake, SK, as a senior missionary for the Northern Canada Evangelical Mission.
Interviewee discusses area of land covered when living by traditional trapping,hunting and fishing; relationship between residents of various northern settlements; and bringing freight by barge from Lesser Slave Lake.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch
The Medicine-Men of the Apache by John G. Bourke
Transcript of interview. Outlines author's approach, the strengths and weaknesses of oral history, and the difficulties which may be encountered in this field.
Discussion about the meanings of various Indian words in English ; family relationships ; and the cannibal dance known as Hamatsa. Mentions a fire in Katit, British Columbia in 1935.
Locates some Indian campsites on the interviewer's map; gives Indian names for various geographical points. Some discussion of certain Indian beliefs pertaining to atype of magical healing.
Philip Carriere was a special native constable at the time of Jim Brady's disappearance. He talks about the search for Jim Brady and Abbie Halkett and about his personal conclusions about their fate.
Pierre Carriere was a close friend of Jim Brady. He talks about the history of Cumberland House, social life as it changed from the pre-war period to the present ; Jim Brady's role as a leader in the community ; the fishing and forestry industry ; the CCF government and its programs ; Malcolm Norris and his activities ; the effect of the war on the town and the role of the Legion.
Pierre Dorion was a young boy when Jim Brady was living in Cumberland House from 1948-1951. Dorion talks about Brady's attempts to organize a Metis Society and his efforts to get people jobs in the area.
Robert Dalby talks about life in the north of Saskatchewan in the 1950s. He discusses the political parties in the north and why some of the CCF programs failed. He also compares the personalities and styles of Jim Brady and Malcolm Norris.