Albert Lacombe
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Albert Lacombe, known as Father Lacombe, was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who travelled among and evangelized the Cree and also visited the Blackfoot First Nations of the parklands and
Father Albert Lacombe circa 1913
Telegram from Lacombe to Macdonald assuring Crowfoot's loyalty
Statue commemorating Lacombe in St. Albert, Alberta
St. Albert, Alberta
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St. Albert is a suburban city in Alberta, Canada, next to the Sturgeon River, northwest of the City of Edmonton, the provincial capital. It was originally settled as a Métis community, and is now the
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…lifestyle. He therefore sought out a new mission site more suitable for agriculture, and in 1861 a settlement was established along the Sturgeon River at Saint Albert, Rupert's Land, just west of Fort Edmonton. In 1864 he was tasked with evangelizing the Cree Plains Indians, and from 1865 to 1872, he travelled…
View of Downtown St. Albert
St. Albert Parish, atop what is now St. Albert's Mission Hill.
The St. Albert Place complex
Historic Alberta Wheat Pool and Alberta Grain Co. grain elevators by the rail line in St. Albert. Both were saved from demolition and are now Provincial historic sites of Alberta, now known as the St. Albert Grain Elevator Park