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WRITTEN ECSTASY A 5

Bells That Rang At Red River.

, PRESENTED 11s YEARS AGO. LoRfOssghgggxrtsDlifililLALDE, FOUND BY THE AUTHOR

AT ST. FRANCOIS XAVIER.

i those MARGARET ABNETT MAC- we reallu what we owe in ‘B’ won) who. ihroiish flooil- ii"- mm‘

and fur trade wars eoloiilfld l“ country; Ind We "wmlumir: special debt to Lord 56d t- whose vision of this as I- 1“ t °e safe and hilpDY li°m°5 “m” m‘ through sacrifice on hi6 P" eventually of all that he had. "#11 to his life.

He died a yoima man i" ‘W11’ 15m, w that the bell remained the only public gift he made t0 the colony he founded. As such it is 0i keen interest to all in this Wool!!!“ land who share in its heritage.

In searching for the history oi hells in Red River that “first bell that. tolled here since creation." and which was the only 81" °l 5 rounder to his colony, seemed of special interest. But it was lost. It had been 10st for nearly i1 bundled years, The last word about it was written in 1819. -

I know that it was the 0n‘y bell

(in Winnipeg Free Pros!) “THE FIR-ST BELL THAT TOL- LED HERE SINCE CREATION."

The follow-ing artlc'e on Selim-K's lust bell will be full of interest w Belfast readers of the Gilflfdlim on account of their connection with Lord Selkirk.

The writer, Mrs. MacLeOd. is the wife of Dr. Alex ‘N Mac- "hod, one of the descendants of the Kildonan pioneers. She was formerly Miss Arnett

‘rhfough hing yearr. a Hudson's Bay company official who lived and died in the Red River settle- .ment before 1819. cherished a. dream. Nothing is known of him. not even his name.

He visioned his little world

around the remote fur trade post transformed, and the dream, of the Catholic church until 1840

hi, hh i m: when it was mlcoeeded by a ohimo rrnrgrlhlwlltlesnbfdglxdere: life mails l 9! W98 bem- l- 3'1“ "m" Queb” quiet mielish country-side. has‘ fronds to Bishop Provonohor for some down to hi his new cathedral of tltebe He said: "I long to see the first tune“ twam- which

ilitte Christian church and ste

What. then, became of Lord Sel-

in member of the perish Wild")

anything? High hopes so often. Hid 50 oftg bells that told no tale!

and our messenger returned. He came in and put his hat and the

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There. among barrels 117.3 @111 ,and sacks and the usual thing: stored in such places, we found Lord Sclklrl-rs Nil; long forgotten so that tile date of casting was not discernibe until the accumula- tions of the years had been brush. ed away. Now in the brglit circle of the flashlight, the figure stood out clear, 11819."

1 was later able to clear up the mystery of the crack in the bell and learn its simple history during the 97 years in which it had been lost. For. as far as can be learned, even though it was given to the si Francois Xavier church in 1840 zml rang there until 1868. no one ever knew that it was Lord Selkirkis bell.

In July 1888. the bell with the small steeple in which it hung. crashed down in the hurl-teem; which devastated Red River, and ‘thereafter it lay in the chilrch- i yard. on‘y an old cracked bell, of

T- 1 ms here." 1 “¥:r:hlileaw$illi" Ahli I leaned eagerly forward. “Could 1 see “All. no. mildiim; l‘ ésdlfl’ °° ' The church is not heii - 5o the neighbor who had drivls; us to the plesbylefy (m w” a

Z tee d for service. “Whilgohu: pill: on his coat the priest gave him instructions-he was familiar with the basement‘ — and a flashlight and I. controll-IIK my excitement, gave him P8P" and pencil and asked him t0 Willie down marklfllfi °l' Bill’ 31ml which he mill: find upon the b°11~ "iii i" d parte .

ewe talked a. little absently. The minutes were hours. Would he 11ml

Five mitiuies passed, then ten;

and un-

The llluullllre that Chitiigfd,“ Minion Love“, Lives Nun Llgllls the bcrvvil-

ERROL FLYNN

‘T NEWS m nls rmsr MODERN

Sketches"

i)‘ r01 LOWING Till} PRLS Exr POPULAR. ENGAGEMENT 0F ENG-

lof wood slowly rising among the} ivilds, to hear the sound of the first Sabbath bell that has tolled i here since creation." He never heard that first bell

ehh,‘ hang in the present cathedral. l

kii~k's bell? No One knew. Not even a surmise or legend existed. It went into convpletc oblivion after

flashlight on the table

buttoned his coat. 'I'l.\l'l‘lln8 it seem- deliberation. he nearby composure

ed with studied leaned calmly against a doorway. The man's

interest to no one.

bell was lying on a. fallen crumbling tombstone.

An early settler recalls that when he came to the parish in 1877 the

ROLL

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1M0. Bo 1 began a search covering some years. I tracked down bells for and near; I squeezed through .trap doors and’ climbed into church towers. but with no success. I traced bells that had gone to Quebec. I was on the verge ' of finding it. I was assured several times that I had foundit, only to ‘be disappointed. I searched in archives’ I corresponded PBOPle whom 1 was told

toll. From his position of authority he probaby had his part in bring- ing about the ne-w day, but he met lite too frequent fate of those who dream of better things. he died before they came to birth.

But his dream came true The sound of the first bell that tolled in Red River since creation was heard at last when, in 1919 Lord Selkirk sent one from London to the colony he had founded at

Again I drew 'in my breath shiirP- 1

wml kitchen stove. The priest W°111d sunlight changed the position of

was maddening!

"Did you find the bell?" asked Father Fyfe. I held my breath, and he nodded affirmatively. The paper was dangling in his hand. and there was nothing on itl

In 1672 a new bell was hung in the o‘d church, which chlltcll was replaced by the present one in 1900, And it was th‘en that someone, no doubt with an eye to tldiness, phi the bell which had lain Outside i0;- thirty-two years, in the bzsemnm of the new church,

S0. in the basement. lookinz at it. There could

h moment of tense silence, only the distant clatter of pan on the in the

I stood be no

gléiliébt. no argument. The figure,

S0.

Coniizaiicll bl‘O'l(l- _i- . ‘e to know at tile t?

1111115111. . _ h , , , =. l..\.\'ll".s (till-IA lll$'l'()lll('.»\L DILLHA Playing today l~lRh OVER ENGLAND” l 4 F,“ Doug,“ surely know, I even questioned a his hands on ing chan- ai-ms, It was Lord scum,“ w,‘ ‘ 4 r021" W" Others who longed Qifmlageflo“ mlféllalsafgsllbgligltffi The man at the doorway sifted bell of Red River's earnest“ i? __ ___,_______ e sound of the first hen | TY W a little. Cram/ping the paper corded dream nth n

.—_.. . . - e e ~~ others who knew the joy o‘ realm‘: ho‘ld: all with no trace of the siqwly in his hand he hskfl-L toned here since ecmgséobeyll that Ad/ijfigin-i] sum/flies of lL".“.(‘illl‘l‘.'- uh.» lLlil hrrll force-cf all who know him. A A l.im1_ For sci-en yfafs ihc catholic "i-ssllli! ml’. “What dale would you expat to n‘

* " ‘ (i hi. i 1.). i.» “my i- in nclv-E The lulu-val sci-vice, \\"lll('ll‘ ‘wits, v wtwrs spnt/ out h}. Lord Selkirk m It might have been given to the {ind on inn b9" if were iv,“ 0mg" cOfvPuilfioll Plllglfll llllllfi '1' _ _ ‘ flrlllllllrCllTl rbvzirhc Sh ‘ Wm‘ lilll hnrl been without a, priest, and Pill.“ “llllfch out-‘ldo "St. Boniface.‘ If hhere was one! "Eighteen nine-

" _ I ‘moi-i in ‘.'.i'lt'iil‘il" ll(.\\5, hob» or o H ‘ll il Ill l“ 1- L‘ ‘ when. in 1818. Fathers Pi-ovemher m i841. that. of St. mallcols teen,‘ 1 answered eagerly. Ailll/e truill Ellgltillfil t... Mlle. n. ill c “no r-JIC dh- i-niiiéioivil. unsrlhclrdd rlliAlll-sl 13%;‘ iflfld Dihmouiin were gmhhy hem Xavier, but. I was [nfgnngd that h-mahm the date on me belhnhe LWPOJHVCCI‘ 01:1" the wccik Lcndpfilio 1E‘; 251:: vgiv lailifigegygttegdcd y From Quebec they came with a g-‘heirkbell wa-tshfalrlyf Ecehtt bigild said, , A""““"' mm“ c"? m ‘Qigttrfhultcd jrfitltyrtt-HAQ b-o hiélxe '11» ‘ remains were laid to rest at the I i tllltltlzflslfalf? m 1.1.3:. lot-tight‘; of waft 12th:: mln ‘T34; it lfados been fofahliserbmtajirxlllgeiultpltregrlhg: '. "1 l 01s - 1- u‘ ~ a i- " ‘ , . f ‘._ em g ~ _ . ‘iii-Ii’ ‘ m:.5“rl..‘3“i*l:%*;l;.“minis. c. Henry GORDON e h- i» so» new“ he 1w o» i- io-o- msw/or” i 1317i ‘ d5 0f l‘ l“ I‘ ‘ W i‘ ' FHAMMHM lun- i llotlorrk 1nd oli aim-r Mis< Kati...“ ., ' . h" prolmsed a “'11 l0!‘ their ".15.! Went out of existence or burned The priest meanwhile war. so excit- n are hyhhhhh h», pic l‘~i""'i1i"" I'll‘ i-iflio, _' 4 i‘ " ‘ y ' . , Also "Stranger Than Flrtilm" sion. down and the boll had been dPF- od that he 11nd put his cap on '9 ‘ ill fruit’ 1i wlihbm“ Y°~‘"l’"'-‘ °l HaZ"l='3“°“" H“ It is interesting to note that it lmlwl m it mm“ M" gone emoked and had to phi; ii on. HPEIIII. ‘IOIICCOY

at OflCi‘. 1-0 hi- n". ill" wlloirxalcrs‘

n out lll" Official _ _ __. . ‘wait; ‘my are ccrcernoti, it \\:ll_ he st.lctly a; m h‘ undo“ case of "filtt Cfllllc first. served."

1h." l_')'_‘(1(‘i"C(i’l'lg5.til€ 14111;‘ "llllcc Trust have 5l1ill~ (in. over and above the . Pfl in the ngulnr way ‘ll l the tmtlc. a reserve supply tilt”) copes. These have been

N. oi

In [Wemoriam

e. spin up into small COYl§lF1llm‘.‘l'llS_ The“, mhsed “w”. to his Eternal; anrl war-"houscri iivitli Wholesale ~

id lit. liatclwovr, on Saturday‘ Al‘ 10th. 1937. Mr. Archibald MilfKlllllCill. Mr. MacKfnncn vras] ‘though the rctaii 5-4110 of the born at Hazeigrovn ivherp he rcsld-‘l "mirth 0111.1’ WTPYlPCl on Fri- led all his life. He was not only at dill‘ l st, nlauv dealers report that i prfJFpPTOllS fnrntcl" bllt a. mall unto.‘ they were co-nlplctrly- sold out b3'|enjo_reci a, Wide circle 0f friends“ Sntlirrlni- niwitt. 'Ill most cases Hi5 hcncur nntl intcttritv won for itoclw had all beer. reserved for him the high respect and esteem

ncrsstieaic-rs from Halifax to Vic- toria.

h, mhir h,,,V,i-_5(.u._.,- i parents Mr, and Mrs. Donald Mac-i

liinnon predrcrased him some years before as did alio a sister. Mrs. Fraser.

Tire pail-bearers were Messrs.‘

Frank Nicholson. Merton Bognall, llarcld Blip-fl and Dr. R H. Barwtt. ‘Thr- floral trbutes were ns follows.- Wreath, The Family, flnray. The Taylor Family. Gran- ville. Wreath. Wellington Mac- Nelll and family, Southport.

DON'T PUNISH CHILD WHEN YOU'RE UPSET

A mother should Elm at having an even temperament: thOllGll nobody ltnows better than mvrrlf.

‘YES throughout the devastating li-iaoflons ‘n which Lord Selkirk was involved in Montreal in 1818 and when his heath finalfy gave “Y- ill" he and Lady sellslrlci

liluslcAlrcAlcr

syiJEni-‘yf be with

" notaaln VCT, LO

it

, i For a child h Pope Bagnan‘ m“ en Nicholson“ u. grown-up who is in the heights with the greatest of kindness, out-in

ill-ted the Bind River missionar- i ending will Cle promire of the

one morning and ill the depths the next in not good for him. Young- sters “catr-h" moods as readily as they do tho measles November of that year found his

"Never punish whcn in a tem- lordship in London a. broken man. per.” 1f a child has made mother broken in henlth, in fgfhung, and ovary. oils Will "Oi be i“ a Slate in his life's ambitions. But even 0f mlml 3° 60PM"? lilllly- amid such a collapse his promise was not forgotten.

It was probably before leaving for France to spend the winter, but from whence he never return- ed. that he gave the order for the bell and made arrangements for

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Dissolve a lum of sugar in the water when w r ‘u: ltlFFPllm nr olcloth and a brllFaut polsh will

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result.

its blessing. since it was shipped; from London to Red River in the spring of i819.

In October. 1819. Fbthfi Pro- vencher. who had arrived at Red River the previous year. re- Mlvrd a fetter from Lord Selkirk vla Hudson Bay advising him that he had sent for the mission "n, few arflcles . , . especially a. lilo-pound bell which had been biased in London.‘

Only part of the consignment ar- rived with the latter, the rest being detainedaltYorkFactoryt-vwlng toe scartrity of barges to transport them inland. So the exact date of the arrival of Lmd Selkirk! bell at

Red River is not known.

In Father Morice's “History of the Cathrfic Church in Western

Canada," ilc relates that in the

autumn of 1819 Father Pro-

venchcrs "heart was gladdenod by

the arrival of IOO-lpound bell from my Lord Selkirk."

One can imagine the excitement

and the encouragement to both the

priests and to those who had so

long waited that day.

"On a splendid situntjoll . . . at St. Boniface," related Father Provencher," opposite the North- west's and Hudson's Bay forts and . . . farther up the river from Fort Douglas," he and his unskilled workmen, with few and crude tools were competing the chapel pert of a poplar log house and chapel com.- bined. and beginning a. more sub- stantial oalr log church a. little distance away.

‘may needed encouragecuexlt. It was another famine year due to grasshoppers and they faced the necessity of again going to Pombina for the winter in order to exist. "We have only a few pounds of flour . . . . charltably from some settlers." Father Provencher wrote. "so we are far from eat- ing bread and being comfortable . . . We will have to keep Lent on buffalo meat."

However. all were happy in the be‘l’s arrival and its peels ring- ing in the new day for Red River no doubt brought fresh courage to the hearts or the brave missionar- ies as they Hstonod. How all within hearing. at the Forts across the river. and throughout the settle- ment. must have thrlfed to the sound of ths first bell tolling here since creation!

ln 1m the still unfinished oak log chapel e a cathedral when Father s-iovencher was made

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s. bishop. It was built with a tower so on its completion it. is probable that the waiting bell was hung there. But there is no record of any mloh event.

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original sources no mention was over again nude of the bell.

Today. over a. hundred years later. that bell takes on a new significance. In the comfort and

I vxtent.

down ‘n a fire in 1839 when a. school next the oak cathedral was burned involving the latter to some So I resigned myself to the loss

But hO-pe would not be quenched. always sprang anew. Some time that ball just might tum up! Bells wore not lost in any mere hundred yearsl St. Patrick's bell at Belfast was over 800 years old. 13ers rang for centuries. Great 'I‘0tm of Oxford. and the bell of Notre Dame had been ringing for over 250 years. Bells outlasted dynasties. people and kings; they summoned soldiers to arms and Christians to church; they usher- ed in masacres; they rang over slaughtered or ransomed cites. in the hour of victory or loss. Bells made history. "

Mlontreal preserved the Louis- burg bell, the chapel bell of Tadousac has been ringing for over two hundred years in Quebec. We just could not give up. Man- ‘toba must have its ancient bell!

The same question always came back. If it had not been melted beyond recognition by fire, it still existed, but where?

Time went on and nothing came of any new line of search so I went for a rest t0 a quiet farm across the river from the church at St. Francois Xavier. a home that had struck down its rem there before Manitoba had been thought of.

I would forget abeut heng 'I'hgy cave lots of trouble and one never not anywhere. I would write about eastern Canada, its history. was all down in black and white and neatly pigeon-holed. so I did. and once more forgot about the Bell that would not stay forgotten,

At dinner. one day. talk turned on the records of the parish church across the river. the oldest’ and most valuable church i-eem-dg l" the Foiliitfy. and I voiced my iiisoapohtsneht that they carried "oihihs about Lord Selkirlrs bell.

Tho quiet lady behind the tea. 9°" l°°k°d "P. "I remember as a ‘mill tliild." she said. "seeing an old cracked bell lying on the around near the church, we “Sadr to so aims a little path lrflm the’