Codex Lethbridge
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witness the ceremony, I desire very much to see it. They can send an escort and conduct me back here. … What was my astonishment when the next morning I learned that my prisoners had been transported to regina [sic] last night. A dispatch had arrived late last night, ordering to send both prisoners East at once.
However I went to the camp and interviewed the wife and parents of the young Chief … They were glad to hear the words of Little Bear and they would stand by them … they were to be sent North in two days and would go to the mission at Onion Lake and do according to the words of their husband and parent.
To day a young Priest, H. Revd. Bigaouette, arrives here from MacLeod, were [sic] he has taken the place of Revd. Father Lebret who has gone North for two months to preach several retreats.
This young Priest can talk well the Italian and will remain a few days in Lethbridge for the sake of our Italian Catholics. A sermon will be preached to them to night and to morrow at 8 O’Clock they are invited to Holy Mass. It is to be hoped that they will perform their Easter duties on this favorable occasion.
Last Sunday, the solemnity of St John the Baptist, our Szlavonians [sic] Society came in a body to the Church with their band… Early in the morning they had already visited the church for their General Communion on the feast of the Patron Saint of the Society. Their banner had been placed in a conspicious [sic] place
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and was surrounded with beautiful natural flowers. The High Mass was celebrated with solemnity and the singing was very good.
The general elections are over, and to the great astonishment of many, the liberals are now in power with a good majority. We will see now what Mr Laurier’s intentions are with regard to the school question.
July 12 [written in front/left margin] To night a dozen Italian went to the river to bathe and one of them venturing to far in the current disappeared … All effords [sic] were needless to recover him as the river runs very swift at the spot were [sic] went down.
The summer is advancing and no rain yet…
Everything is dried up.
27th [written in front/left margin] Yesterday, while a few Slavonians were down the river about Four miles, they discovered the body of Frank Bonini, the Italian who disappeared in the river while bathing near the pumphouse [sic] at Lethbridge.. The Police was notified and to day the body, being already in a state of decomposition, was brought to town … We learn that this unfortunate man was only about two months in Lethbridg [sic]
We know him not … we have not seen him in Church …. He did not come while Father Bigaouette was here, for the special benefit of the Italians… He did not come to his confession and communion on that occasion as many others did…. But Charity makes us suppose that he was more faithful before he came here, so we buried him in the Cath. grave yard. R. I. P.
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witness the ceremony, I desire very much to see it. They can send an escort and conduct me back here. … What was my astonishment when the next morning I learned that my prisoners had been transported to regina [sic] last night. A dispatch had arrived late last night, ordering to send both prisoners East at once.
However I went to the camp and interviewed the wife and parents of the young Chief … They were glad to hear the words of Little Bear and they would stand by them … they were to be sent North in two days and would go to the mission at Onion Lake and do according to the words of their husband and parent.
To day a young Priest, H. Revd. Bigaouette, arrives here from MacLeod, were [sic] he has taken the place of Revd. Father Lebret who has gone North for two months to preach several retreats.
This young Priest can talk well the Italian and will remain a few days in Lethbridge for the sake of our Italian Catholics. A sermon will be preached to them to night and to morrow at 8 O’Clock they are invited to Holy Mass. It is to be hoped that they will perform their Easter duties on this favorable occasion.
Last Sunday, the solemnity of St John the Baptist, our Szlavonians [sic] Society came in a body to the Church with their band… Early in the morning they had already visited the church for their General Communion on the feast of the Patron Saint of the Society. Their banner had been placed in a conspicious [sic] place
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and was surrounded with beautiful natural flowers. The High Mass was celebrated with solemnity and the singing was very good.
The general elections are over, and to the great astonishment of many, the liberals are now in power with a good majority. We will see now what Mr Laurier’s intentions are with regard to the school question.
July 12 [written in front/left margin] To night a dozen Italian went to the river to bathe and one of them venturing to far in the current disappeared … All effords [sic] were needless to recover him as the river runs very swift at the spot were [sic] went down.
The summer is advancing and no rain yet…
Everything is dried up.
27th [written in front/left margin] Yesterday, while a few Slavonians were down the river about Four miles, they discovered the body of Frank Bonini, the Italian who disappeared in the river while bathing near the pumphouse [sic] at Lethbridge.. The Police was notified and to day the body, being already in a state of decomposition, was brought to town … We learn that this unfortunate man was only about two months in Lethbridg [sic]
We know him not … we have not seen him in Church …. He did not come while Father Bigaouette was here, for the special benefit of the Italians… He did not come to his confession and communion on that occasion as many others did…. But Charity makes us suppose that he was more faithful before he came here, so we buried him in the Cath. grave yard. R. I. P.
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