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The Home of the Muse: Oblates and the Northern Life Museum

Benjamin Lyle Berger
Research Associate, Provincial Museum of Alberta

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Berger, Benjamin Lyle. “The Home of the Muse: Oblates and the Northern Life Museum.”

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1 (Return to Article) From the Oxford English Dictionary

2 (Return to Article) Ripley, Dillon. The Sacred Grove. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. p. 25.

3 (Return to Article) Much of the following history is based on a conversation between Benjamin Berger and Fr. Ebner.

4 (Return to Article) Of the ancient Greek collections, Ripley notes that they "afforded an opportunity for encyclopaedic studies. Many of the great collectors were also great teachers."

5 (Return to Article) Fr. Ebner maintains that, had it not been for the tremendous financial and ideological support given by Bishop Piche, the Northern Life Museum could not have happened.

6 (Return to Article) Recorded conversation between Benjamin Berger and Fr. Francis Ebner, May 14, 1998. Folklife Collections, Provincial Museum of Alberta, AU.98.10.

7 (Return to Article) Recorded conversation between Benjamin Berger and Fr. Francis Ebner, May 14, 1998. Folklife Collections, Provincial Museum of Alberta, AU.98.10.

8 (Return to Article) Recorded conversation between Benjamin Berger and Fr. Francis Ebner, May 14, 1998. Folklife Collections, Provincial Museum of Alberta, AU.98.10.

9 (Return to Article) Recorded conversation between Benjamin Berger and Fr. Francis Ebner, May 14, 1998. Folklife Collections, Provincial Museum of Alberta, AU.98.10.

10 (Return to Article) Fr. Ebner's Comment Register: Mr. & Mrs. O.A. Chenigny, Plamondon, Alberta (April 10. 1969)

11 (Return to Article) Fr. Ebner's Comment Register: Ellen K. Binder (nee Pulk), Inuvik, N.W.T. (February 8, 1970)

12 (Return to Article) Fr. Ebner's Comment Register: Carl Dillon, Ft. Smith, N.W.T. (May 4, 1970)

13 (Return to Article) Fr. Ebner's Comment Register: Clayton Lansiz, Plamondon, Alberta (August 24, 1983)

14 (Return to Article) Perin, Constance. "The Communicative Circle: Museums as Communities", in Museums and Communities. eds. Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

15 (Return to Article) Recorded conversation between Benjamin Berger and Fr. Francis Ebner, May 14, 1998. Folklife Collections, Provincial Museum of Alberta, AU.98.10.

16 (Return to Article) Ripley, p. 101.

17 (Return to Article) See Ignatieff, Michael. The Needs of Strangers. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

18 (Return to Article) From the Oxford English Dictionary

19 (Return to Article) St. Augustine. The Trinity. Trans. Stephen McKenna. XIV:VII. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1963.

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