Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1897, pp. 33-37
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Book review of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites
Entire issue on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 33.
A Happy New Year; What is Said of the Wawa Shorthand (same as Issue 136); To our French Subscribers; Monthly News in Chinook; History of the Apostles, Chapters 7 to 9; Our Lady of Lourdes, IV - Third Apparition; English Shorthand Exercise; Indian Calendar.
A Happy New Year; What is Said of the Wawa Shorthand (same as Issue 136); To our French Subscribers; Monthly News in Chinook; History of the Apostles, Chapters 7 to 9; Our Lady of Lourdes, IV - Third Apparition; English Shorthand Exercise; Indian Calendar.
A Happy New Year. Editor suggests that the Wawa is now "popular throughout the country."; What Is Said of the Kamloops Wawa? What is Said of the Wawa Shorthand?; Elements of Phonography, Lessons 1 to 14; The Creation of the World; back page is a thank you letter to Revered Clergy for their encouragement and support.
Describes Wawa's editors, contributors and readers contributions and prizes from French shorthand conferences, exhibitions and competitions. A Lesson in Shorthand; English Shorthand reading; Our French Page; Monthly News in Chinook; Early Church History, Chapters 10 to 15; Our Lady of Lourdes, V - Fourth and Fifth Apparitions; Directory for Indians - a description for Indians of what prayers should be given on specific occasions.
Describes creation of the English and Chinook Manual and its contents; other publications available include the Skwamish, Seshel, Slayamen Manual, Shuswap Manual, Okanagan Manual, Lillooet Manual, Stalo Manual and Thompson Manual. Description of visits to several villages: Skwa in Chilliwack, Lytton, Ashcroft, Fountain Head Indian Reserve, Chief Basil from Bonaparte accompanied to Kamloops, Requiem for Captain Moyse. Too many sick in North Bend, also mentions postponement of Solemnity of St. Joseph's and Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
Discusses rush and boom of miners and their affect on Kamloops. Success of Indian prospectors. Describes copies sold of Wawa Shorthand Instructor; Train accident the Editor was involved in. A Lesson in Shorthand; Our French Page (news from a dozen local locations); Monthly News in Chinook; Early Church History, Chapters 17 and 18; Directory for Indians; Recreative, Fox and Coyooty; Hymn in Shushwap for a deceased child (bars of music with Chinook shorthand lyrics and verses).
Ads in English include California wine for clergy and, in Chinook shorthand and English, an ad for Vancouver Stoves and Hardware seller. Descriptions of illustrations in this issue; Museum Department in Ottawa enquiry about Indian time keeping; describes origins of Indian Calendar in the Wawa. A Lesson in Shorthand; Our French Page; Monthly News in Chinook; Our illustrations; Early Church History (includes illustrations of buildings and arches with Chinook shorthand captions); Pagan Rome; Our Lady of Lourdes; Chinook Hymn (bars of music with lyrics and verses in Chinook shorthand).
Description of new placement of certain clergy; advertises coins to coin collectors that may be received by correspondence with Kamloops Wawa. Relates story of Lytton Indian's first encounter with white men and alcohol. Editorial Notes; St. Linus - Successor of St. Peter; A Lesson in Shorthand; Our French Page; The News in Chinook; Early Church History; Pit's Winter; Indian Calendar 1897-1898.
First page describes other publications by author and story about an Aboriginal man at a trading post who took salt instead of flour. Editorial Notes - St. Clement, Third Pope 64-76; A Lesson in Shorthand includes table of the 240 most common words in English and their CSH correspondent (not all 240 listed); Our French Page - Fort Langley, Fraser; The News in Chinook; Early Church History, Chapter 22; Early Church History Illustrated; centre two page foldout of "Map of the World" advertisement by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
First page lists publication available in Native languages and back issues of Kamloops Wawa; also discusses high costs of food and lodging in Yale district during mine craze. St. Dionysius the Areopagite: First Bishop of Paris; Editorial Notes - St. Cletus, Fourth Pope AD 77-83; A Lesson in Shorthand ("commonest" words in English continued from previous issue); Our French Page; The News in Chinook; Early Church History, Chapters 23 to 25; Early Church History (illustrated); Our Lady of Lourdes; two page ad "Map of the Cariboo Country" included by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Discusses consecration of Right Reverend Bishop Augustine Dontenwill at New Westminster. Gathering of 2000 Aboriginal people for consecration. Editorial describes Golden Jubilee of first Priest ordained on the Pacific Coast, Father Tayol, and death of Bishop Lemmens of Victoria at Guatemala. Pictorial Bible History; Our French Page; Monthly News in Chinook Early Church History, Chapters 27 to 29; Early Church History, Illustrated; Our Lady of Lourdes.
The use of Latin throughout history of Christianity. Editorial describes showing of Wawa and fifty Indian competitors at the Concours Stenographique in France; Movements of the Right Reverend Bishop Dontenwell in Diocese of New Westminster; Pictorial Bible History; Our French Page (discusses Queen Victoria and Pope Leon XIII); Monthly News in Chinook; Early Church History, Chapters 30 to 31; Early Church History (Illustrated); Our Lady of Lourdes, Chapters 14 to 16.
Introduction includes list of Catholic texts that have been translated into Chinook shorthand; also an exchange of the Wawa for publication in Algiers in the Luganda language; list of Catholic ceremonial dates for 1898. Editorial; Pictorial Bible History; Our French Page (Indian customs); Monthly News in Chinook; Early Church History, Chapter 32; Early Church History (Illustrated); Our Lady of Lourdes, Chapters 17 to 18; Indian Calendar for 1898.
Chinook Marseillaise; Marseillaise du whisky; music notation in detail with Chinook shorthand subscript/lyrics; Indian Calendar for Nov. to Dec. 1897; Indian Calendar 1898; Indian Temperance Regulations.
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