Church on Reserve
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Thomas R. Melville-Ness
Description
A small wooden church, "likely on an Indian Reserve."
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.
Historical note:
This church burned to the ground on 22 December 1998.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.