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JAMES EVANS, THE’ llllsS/SIONARY, TEACHING THE INDIANS“ ms SYSTEM OF CREE

The missionary has played a conspicuous part in the history of Canada. Under the French regime Jesuits. Recoilects and Sulpicians were explorers, companions of the voyageur and the lui- trader, ambassadors of the state as well as the church to the Indian tribes. They penetrated to the Mississippi and the great plains beyond, they crossed the height of land to the slopes of Hudson's Bay. With British rule, the Protestant caurches entered the field. The Mohaiwke. the Mississaugas, and the OjibwaysMcre served by settled ministers or by itinerant missionaries. From the upper lakes thegospei messengers passed into the great northwest, and betore Conlederatlon all the churches were

' It work among the Indians of the plains and tile wooded

fur country to the north.

The services or these missionaries were by no means exclusively clerical. ‘i hey acted as physicians, as advisers, as teachers of manual arts and agriculture. They strove to train ﬁe Indian to meet the coming white civilization which would sweep away their age-long nomadic lile, to fit them in some degree to find a place in the new order of things. and to soften, as much as possible, the tragedy cl their racial dleposseesio...

Among those who have devoted themselves to mis- sionary work among the Indians of Canada none holds a higher place than James Evans, “the man who taught birch bark how to talk." Born in England, he came out to Upper Canada when a young man, arid engaged in school teaching. <

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in 1830 he entered the Methodist ministry and was ap- pointed missionary to the Ojibway lndians of Rice Lake. He had already served as school teacher to them, and had learned their language. With William Case, Thomas Hul- bert, and Peter Jones, he worked on the translation of the scriptures into Ojibway. in 1840 he was appointed mis- sionary superintendent of the Methodist Church in the northwest. He fixed his headquarters at Roesvilie, near the northern end of Lake Winnipeg, among the Cree Indians. Their language is closely related to that of the Ojibwayei and Evans soon mastered it and set himseiii to the task of translating the Bible. as he had done in Ontario.

it was in the prosecution of this work that in 1841 he invented the Cree Syllabic, the alphabet of the Cree Indians an extremely simple system of less than fifty characters, by means of which the language may be written and printed. and easily learned by natives and white men alike.

.. . .He first wrote his Bible verses and hymns on sheets ~

of birch bark, with ‘ink made from chimney soot, and taught his Indians to read and to write in the characters he had invented for them. He then proceeded to manufacture type and to print his books,_He cut his type molds out of wood blocks with a jack-knlile, collected the lead linings trom old Na 6508i!» "W"!!! it and Poured it into the wooden molds. Other types he cut out with his knife from musket bullets. With an old fur press as a printing machine, ink made from soot, and birch bark for paper, he printed his first

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books, and set up the first press and Publlsllmﬂ °m°€ "t the northwest. Later a small press W88 W"! W‘ "m" “"3: ' land, and the Indian converts learned to sﬁrzylbewmllt the print. His system was rlPldly Pl" "f" "l" da fed to ‘he missions. Catholic and Protestant alike, an; a Pdied while language of euery tribe of the northwest. vans I on a visit to England in 1345-

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charred stick. At one side stands his guide and interpret".- rig frequently travelled in a sort of boat-canoe made of tin. this is shown drawn up on the shore.

The missionary wears a black d°llb|="b"°3“°d W" away coat and vest, a white neckcioth, dark brown cordu- roy breeches, flannel or duffie socks to the knees, and mile- casins. Some of the Indian men are dressed in fringed buckskin frocks and leggings, others wear coat: and trou- sers of heavy coarse cloth of European manufacture, pro- cured at a hudson’: Bay COMPMW’! P95!- °"° h" i Mam“ et coat or capotei and several have BMW °°l°r°d "m" and neckerchiete, A couple of them wear ﬂat cape of black or dark blue cloth without Flu“. "k9 °|d‘f*'h|°"°d 'm°k‘ mg caps, ornamented on the sides with bead work and with a iong tassel hanging from the crown. The WWW!" W“? ‘hawk with gaudy patterns, and wide. deep skirts of dark blue cloth or ﬂannel.

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lliins lllary Glllis (sister of the bride) curried in tile gills u-liicli were presented by Mrs. ii. M. Chi.» liolm. Then "some" lccd, more illll‘ HiC, and a little step by Lorne .\lc<

illl groom in the centre 0t‘ tllPlKcnna. llic “vree barber," who, by the wuy, is as popular as he isithe farm and Y0“ will M“ “"11"” w.

nnm and llllss Helen Chisholm and _ H _ ‘cmnll, and it was time to go, so wefwuy to keep the bﬂyﬂ 0“ melami-

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Tryon And Vicinity

(By "Eismaeﬂ _ M“ [qppin Lord. ‘iliipuud. visited ‘Fryun Sunday-

Mr. Jiick McLeod. Urunviilc. spent Suniluy in TITO"-

Mr. William 'l‘liomiin, (irons ltouil, is nei-lniinly ill oi‘ illubciue-

Mp h 1r_ McKcnnu, Albany, visit- ed Vlclorlu iiiid Crniiullll $111111"!!-

Miiis Edith Lord. Sumiiiersidc. spent Sunday with relatives in Try- on.

_ New Ford owners here are Mi‘. Alfred Wood (touring cur). Mr. El- mer Walsh lracer.)

Mine (lora/McNoili, Summerelde. 1n visiting her sister. Mrs. Delaney. Noith Tryon.

Mr. George McLeod motored to Victoria Tuesday evening to visit his brother, who is (iangerously ill.

Mr. Gus Weddell and lumiiy mot- ored to the Provincial Capital and returned home again Saturday ov- ening.

Among recent visitors from Try- ou to Summon-side were Brenton Howatt. George McLeod and Roy McKenzie. i '

Mrs. Percy Callbacks Star coupe iii again iii good running Ordbhﬂlld was seen in Tryon and Westmors- land Sunday.

Miss Jeanette McVltlio. West- moreland, spent the week-end in North Tryon, the guest. o! Mlle Jos- sio, Chisholm.

Mr. J. A._ (Thomson, who hes been conﬁned to his homo tor some time past with mumpii, ls now able to be up and about again.

/ . Mr. Norman Inwllier, Chgrlgttg. town; Conservative candidate, South Prince. spent Sunday with his c i- lcagumlllr. Louie I-iowett, Tryo w,

vr iinil Mrs. Deimicy, is recovering from iiiiciiinmilii uiiiiol" lilo Bltlllﬂfl cnrc nl‘ Dr. E. A. Bull, Capo Trav- tzrnc.

Mrs. Wlliiuiii ltiiiniiii is. we iirc sorry lo write. cnniiucd to llic house with high DUNN] pressure. We trust shc will soon recover and resume her wontcil uctivliicii.

W. A. Pimicy, our popular gnriige mun, lillﬂ llic Flu. 'I‘wn iiuyii in bed ~——u. record for W. A., "and a cull from Dr. ilovyer. But now he is out. That is the wuy the “Doc" ﬁxes ‘em up.

Among ihOi-ic visiting Summer- siiic Saturday cvcnlinz. were Messrs. Ken. McDonald, lilkion Lord and the Misses Amy Harvey and Ella Canﬂeld; Messrs. Geo. McLeod, llny McKenzie, Misses Margaret Daw- son. Minerva Glills. Arthur und Mrs. Dawson, James and Mrs. Daw- son, Mr. Reg. 'I‘homun and Misses Jeanie Chisholm and Jcunetlc Mc- Vitlle. ~

T_he political meeting on Friday evening, the 10th; in Tryon Hull. was well attended. The candidates Messrs. Louis l-lowalt, Norman Low- ther, (Conservative), and Manure Walter M. Lea. and Horace Wright (Liberal) gave good speeches. and outilped tor those present the poli- cies o! their respective parties. Mr. Edwin Dawson occupied the chair. and tlﬁ order was good.

Mrs. Annie E. Morrison, Narama- to, 8.0., is vlsiting in North Tryon, the guest o! her brother. D. J. Thomson. Mrs. Morrison lott B. C. early last autumn and spent tho winter with her sister, Mrs. Neil McDonald, Boston, later vlsltlngro- iletlvea in Harttord, CODYL. and 8t. John, N.B. Mrs. Morrison will spend the summer with her rela- tives on P. E. 1., returning to B. C. next autumn. She is at present spending a few days with her bro-

tlier-in-lavr. James A. Morrison, ot Surnmereids. '

0n Monday evening at the home o! the bride's tether. Mr. Jock Gli- liii, trlendii ot Roy andMi-l. Genus » on getliereiijn "to obey: ‘my um l

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Parasites are rampant in the Fox Ranches as well as on the Farms of P. E. Island and must be eradicated if-

our valuable products of -Farm and Ranch are to be saved. -

Farmers are in the van protecting their crops 0f potatoes and grains by generous spraying and treating with disinfecting solutions. i l ‘

Fox Ranchers must also wage war against the Ranclfs numerous parasites, ESPECIALLY THE DEADLY HOOKWORM AND LUNGWORM.‘ These successfully resist such strong solution digiﬁfgctants as

pure carbolic acid and can only be destroyed by the in- tense ﬂame, 1,800 Degrees ‘Fahrenheit, _ gell- erpted by the Hauck Fire Gun. This ﬂameburus up the minute disease-eggs and scorchea the l f f'_' so thor- oughly that no parisitic life is left often-Y‘ "' g thus treated. f__.' y’ » ‘ Man four leading ranchergare’ now ublilk Hauck that it. has solved the ditﬁcult pj-oblem of l-proper tliﬂlll‘ feotion of fox pens. "

Our Mr. J. Eric Love is ‘ilemouutratlnglj " latest scientiﬁc discovery in ranch disinfection and" will» b‘ pleased tocallon interested parties. Phonepr write to our address“ , ' ~ ' ’~ .

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