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Missions

When European traders and explorers began to move into North America, as was the case during the colonization of Europe and Asia, there was an immense desire to Christianize the native populations as a means of "civilizing" and helping to ease the natives in to the more preferable, European Lifestyle. The Jesuits were the first to arrive and, generally established their missions around French colonies. The British Conquest in 1760 brought with it the Methodists, Anglicans and Moravians. In western Canada the most active have been the Wesleyan Methodists, the Oblate Priests (Roman Catholics), the Presbyterians after 1860 and, later the United Church.

To learn more about Missions and Mission History in Alberta, visit Alberta: How the West was Young: Mission Site Profiles, also read: St. Charles Mission - The Art of Log Construction, by Dorothy Field.

Missions

Missions

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Poundmaker School


Lacombe Chapel