St. Albert Jubilee

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

St. Albert 150th Anniversary Projects for High School Students

Student can help develop a proposal for a summer job see FACTSnet Summer Jobs 2010 or they can get High School credit for participating in a project as follows:

Get CTS credit for blogger and other CTS modules for more information email factsc@gmail.com
Get LA credit for researching writing stories (check with your teacher)
Do Social Studies projects like researching 150th anniversary issues for social 30 (check with your teacher and see Grade 10, Grade 11 Grade 12)
Participate in St. Albert Christmas Past, Present and Future (150th Anniversary Project)
Participate in Language, Culture and Heritage Networks Dialogue 2010 from a St. Albert (Christian) perspective.

Comment on this blog to suggest other projects, improvements or other remarks.

1811 St. Albert (50 Years Plus) Before the Founding of the Mission

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Sponsors Summer 2009

The following is a list of sponsors for this blog:
Canada Summer Jobs
FACTS
Centralta Tourism Society
Collaborative Information Networks

Monday, August 3, 2009

1861 - The Founding of the St Albert Mission

[St Albert Pictorial History Page 5]

[St Albert Pictorial History page 4]

On January 14, 1861, Bishop Alexandre Taché and Father Albert Lacombe stood atop the hill where the St Albert Mission was to be established.

It is on top of this hill that the original Chapel and the St Albert Parish stands today. You can read more on the history of the St Albert Parish here.

More information on the founding and the history of St Albert can be found in the Pictorial History of St. Albert and the first volume of Black Robe's Vision.

Details in Black Robe's Vision on the founding of the St Albert Mission starts on page 5.
In December, Father Lacombe "reported that thirty lots had been taken and ten houses had been built". [BRV 20]

Sunday, August 2, 2009

1861 - A New Mission

A Social Studies story for Grade 2 - What was life like back then?

Father Albert Lacombe arrived in Lac Ste. Anne in 1853, but he quickly began to search for a more suitable land to settle permanently. He wanted a place with fertile soil for agriculture and a place closer to the Blackfoot camps so that he could minister to them. Father Lacombe considered much of the land near the North Saskatchewan River, but he continually returned to one particular area. The soil was good, and there was wooded land as well, useful for constructing buildings. It was also close to Fort Edmonton and a mission Father Lacombe had established there, St Joachim.

in January of 1861, Father Lacombe brought Bishop Taché to the proposed mission site. Bishop Taché gave his blessing to the mission, giving it the name St Albert.

From Black Robe's Vision vol. 1:
Page 18
Page 19

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1861 - The Founding of St Albert

Friday, July 31, 2009

Jubilee 1911 - On St Albert's 50th

From Black Robe's Vision:
There doesn't appear to have been a 50th anniversary of the founding of St Albert in 1911; instead, in the year 1909, the 60th anniversary of Father Lacombe's ordination and the 50th anniversary of Grey Nuns' arrival in Western Canada were celebrated. As well, in 1914, the 50th anniversary of Father Leduc's priesthood is celebrated, suggesting the community placed importance on the Catholic figures in St Albert. [BRV 332]
The telephone switchboard was moved to the Mauchle household and was operated from there for almost 50 years. Jacob was the telephone agent, and his wife Anna was the telephone operator. [St Albert Gazette]