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	Albert Lacombe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lacombe was born in Saint-Sulpice, Québec to Albert Lacombe and Agathe Duhamel on 28 February, 1827.
		Lacombe was unsatisfied in Quebec, and in 1852 he followed Monsignor Alexandre Taché, then suffragan Bishop of Saint Boniface, to the Red River Settlement.
		Anne, Lacombe concerned himself during the period from 1853 to 1861 with expanding the mission and deepening his ties to the native population, eventually travelling as far north as the Lesser Slave Lake in search of converts.
	albert-lacombe.iqnaut.net (665 words)

	SAPD: Pioneer - Anton Anderson, Father of Joan Davis
		Albert Lacombe was born in 1827 in the Parish of St. Sulpice, along the St. Lawrence River, Quebec, in a log home about twenty miles northwest of Montreal.
		Father Lacombe was a priest, a missionary, and a colonizer.
		Father Lacombe's body is buried in St. Albert, Alberta, but his heart is buried in a small cemetery situated adjacent to the north side of the Convent of the Sisters Of Providence which is located at 2215 - 28th Street SW, Calgary, Alberta.
	pioneersalberta.org /lacombe_albert.html (1034 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
		Lacombe demonstrated an interest in working in that region and, shortly after his ordination at Saint-Hyacinthe on 13 June 1849, he was sent to Pembina (N.Dak.), which was served by clergy from Red River.
		Lacombe travelled to the Blackfoot Indian Reserve, whose residents seemed disinclined to take up arms alongside their old enemies, and then hurried north to call for peace on the Cree reserves near the Battle River.
		Of all the missions accepted by Lacombe, this was the one that most taxed his talents, and the intricacies of party politics made him long for the seclusion of his hermitage.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=41623 (3147 words)

	Albert Lacombe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Father Albert Lacombe (28 February 1827 – 12 December 1916) was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who lived among and evangelized the Cree and Blackfoot First Nations of western Canada.
		Lacombe was born in Saint-Sulpice, Quebec, to Albert Lacombe and Agathe Duhamel on 28 February 1827.
		For the remainder of his life, Lacombe played a major role in founding schools throughout the West, such as St Mary's School in what is now the Mission District of Calgary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Lacombe (740 words)

	Lacombe, Albert - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LACOMBE, ALBERT [Lacombe, Albert], 1827-1916, French Canadian Roman Catholic missionary.
		Lacombe was one of the first Roman Catholic missionaries sent (1850) to the Canadian Northwest.
		Albert Lalonde, O.M.I. re "sickness unto death: dissent on Vatican document in Canada".(Letter to the editor)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lacombe.html (229 words)

	Father Albert LacombeFather Albert Lacombe
		Lacombe loved teaching and one technique that he used was called the 'Sahale stick.' Lacombe for some reason had much difficulty teaching the Blackfoot until he started visualizing and drawing pictures of Creation etc. on a Buffalo hide.
		Lacombe devised what was called " The Catholic Ladder " which was in reality a path to heaven and told the stories of the Old and New testaments in a picture, symbols, hieroglyphics style that the Indians grasped very quickly.
		Lacombe, emaciated, exhausted and injured made it to the Fort where Richard Hardisty, the Chief Trader at the fort, and thankful for Lacombe's help the year before, welcomed and attended to Lacombe.
	www.davidthompsonthings.com /Lacombe.htm (1133 words)

	Biographies - Albert Lacombe
		Albert Lacombe was one of the most influential and well-known figures of early Canada.
		Lacombe's life is categorized by significant accomplishments in language, religion, and politics through his years of service as an Oblate Father.
		Lacombe was an advocate for French settlement in the West.
	www.edukits.ca /francophone/en/bio/bio_lacombe.html (159 words)

	wcr:06/05/2000 -- Lacombe trumpeted education
		Father Albert Lacombe, a missionary and educator in the St. Albert Diocese for more than 50 years, was a "special messenger" of the Canadian bishops in education.
		With the signing of Treaty No. 7 with the Blackfoot in 1877, Lacombe became convinced that the best way to persuade the native population to coexist in peace with the settlers who were flooding into the West was to provide "structured learning in the activities of the newcomers," noted Ross.
		Lacombe served as principal, and two lay brothers and two Sisters of Charity staffed the new school, whose curriculum included academics and a music program for one-half of each day.
	www.wcr.ab.ca /news/2000/0605/fralbertlacombe060500.shtml (821 words)

	Real Estate Weekly
		Father Lacombe oversaw construction of a small chapel and residence on the brow of the hill and land was cleared for planting crops.
		Lacombe, however, wasnt the sort of man to stay in one place long because he was interested in evangelizing the Blackfoot and other First Nations of the southern plains.
		Father Lacombes body was entombed at the crypt at the St. Albert Mission, in Cree country, while his heart was removed and interred at Midnapore, the heart of Blackfoot territory.
	www.rewedmonton.ca /content_view2?CONTENT_ID=175 (960 words)

	History
		The railway officials soon decided to name Siding No. 12, "Lacombe," in honour of Father Albert Lacombe, the "Blackrobe Voyageur" who for many years was the peacemaker missionary, first between the Blackfoot and the Cree, and later between the Indians and white settlers.
		The Lacombe Research Center was started in 1907 on the south edge of Lacombe.
		Lacombe was no longer serving a large farming area; it was now servicing only the town proper and a small peripheral trading area.
	www.town.lacombe.ab.ca /62/ecdev/visitor/visitor_info/history.htm (617 words)

	News Release - March 12, 2004- Oscar Lacombe - Honured on Monday, Sentenced on Tuesday
		Lacombe, age 75, was in charge of Legislature order and security for 13 and a half years, and prior to that Peter Lougheed's personal body guard.
		A Metis, Lacombe was born and raised in a trapper's cabin in the St. Paul area in 1929, one of 12 children.
		He is a great-great grandnephew of the missionary Albert Lacombe, and great-grandson of Edmonton pioneer Lawrence Garneau.
	www.citizenscentre.com /news04-03-12.html (322 words)

	Father Albert Lacombe (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Father Albert Lacombe was born in Saint-Sulpice on February 28, 1827.
		He was the son of Albert Lacombe and Agathe Duhamel.
		In 1872, Father Lacombe was appointed to the parish of Winnipeg (Fort Gary) and put in charge of: colonization in Manitoba.
	edimage.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /edimage/grandspersonnages/en/carte_r06.html (561 words)

	Parish History - St. Albert Catholic Parish - St. Albert, Alberta, Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Father Lacombe Chapel, located in St. Albert, is generally considered to be the oldest surviving building in Alberta.
		The chapel was built in 1861 by Father Albert Lacombe, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate missionary.
		Father Lacombe spent only 4 years at the St Albert mission before he moved south to establish a mission among the Blackfoot.
	www.stalbertparish.ca /history3.html (254 words)

	Father Albert Lacombe Care Centre, Calgary, AB
		Established by Father Albert Lacombe with the Sisters of Providence, the Centre has a history of care that goes back almost as far as that of Alberta itself.
		Lacombe Home was built in 1910 for the aged and orphans—two groups Father Lacombe identified as destitute and in need of community support and care.
		Father Albert Lacombe, O.M.I. Albert Lacombe was born in 1827, at St. Sulpice Parish near Montreal, the grandson of a woman born to a French-Canadian mother and Ojibway father.
	www.flnh.net /about.htm (2909 words)

	Father Lacombe High School - Father Albert Lacombe: The Person
		Father Lacombe was born in Montreal in 1827; Father Lacombe came to the West in 1852.
		During this time Father Lacombe battled epidemics of diphtheria, scarlet fever (he was stricken with the disease himself), and smallpox (which killed half of the Indian population in Alberta).
		When the Metis made their last stand, Lacombe was convinced that the Europeans would win, so he used his influence to persuade Chief Crowfoot and other leading chiefs to remain uncommitted during the Riel Rebellion.
	www.fatherlacombe.calgary.ab.ca /aboutlacombe.htm (873 words)

	wcr:11/04/2002 -- Ted Fitzgerald -- In search of St. Albert
		Albert Lacombe was born in Quebec, Feb. 28, 1827 and was ordained in Montreal at age 22.
		Despite uncertainty about which St. Albert provided the original Lacombe family name, St. Albertans seem to favour Albert the Great as the patron of the parish and, by extension, of the Alberta city.
		To Lacombe, the sedentary life of a parish priest couldn't compare to the attraction of the open prairies to the south.
	www.wcr.ab.ca /columns/tedfitzgerald/2002/fitzgerald110402.shtml (665 words)

	Alberta: How the West was Young - Fur Trade and Mission History - Traders, Missionaries & Explorers - Father Lacombe
		His theological studies began at a very early age and during his schooling he was greatly influenced by some of his teachers whose tales of buffalo hunts, native warriors and the struggles of the first missionaries in the west sparked a curiosity and sense of adventure in the young Oblate.
		However, missions at Fort Edmonton and St. Albert were not enough to occupy his curious nature and, in 1865, he accepted a mission to roam the prairies in an attempt to evangelize the nomadic Cree and Blackfoot peoples.
		Having travelled widely, befriended many influential Indian leaders and their peoples and possessing an ability to communicate in Cree, Father Lacombe was instrumental in quelling the fears of the natives, and in helping the government to maintain peace, on the prairies during the North West Rebellion of 1885.
	www.abheritage.ca /alberta/fur_trade/bio_father_lacombe.html (563 words)

	Father Lacombe
		Albert Lacombe shared with many Methodist missionaries feelings about the displacement and change of lifestyle of Aboriginal peoples.
		Lacombe's ordination was celebrated throughout the convents and missions in his diocese.
		Lacombe camped in the bush on the shores of Lesser Slave Lake, en route to the signing of Treaty 8.
	www.albertasource.ca /methodist/The_Missions/Father_Lacombe.htm (467 words)

	Calgary & Southern Alberta - Albert Lacombe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Albert Lacombe, born at St. Sulpice near Montreal in 1827, arrived in the West in 1849.
		Lacombe, however, decided to dedicate his life to the western missions and the Oblate order.
		Lacombe, like John McDougall, served as an intermediary between police, government, railway personnel, and the Blackfoot.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/calgary/lacombe.html (150 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Albert Lacombe, one of the best-known missionaries in the history of western Canada, attended the Collège de L’Assomption and continued his theological studies at the bishop’s palace in Montreal.
		Lacombe was stationed at Lac Ste Anne (Alta) in 1853.
		In the meantime Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin* of St Albert sought Lacombe’s return to that diocese because the status of the Indian missions was in the balance.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41623 (3147 words)

	St. Albert, Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Albert is home to a writers' guild, painters guild and renound bands like Social Code hail from St. Albert.
		Albert was founded by the French Catholic community, but today it is an even split between Catholics and Protestants.
		Albert was originally established as a Catholic missionary oupost by Father Albert Lacombe, who used it to minister to the local natives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Albert,_Alberta (969 words)

	Welcome To RE/MAX St.Albert, Alberta
		It was established in 1861, and named for Father Albert Lacombe, one of the earliest missionaries in the West.
		Streams, ravines and drainage channels leading to the river continue to be preserved in their natural state as much as possible.
		Whether you are moving to, from, or within St Albert, let the professionals from REMAX help you with your real estate needs.
	www.remaxstalbert.com /730_info.jsp (168 words)

	Biography/Architecture
		Father Lacombe came to Calgary because he wanted to be a missionary and teach the natives about Jesus and God.
		I picked Father Lacombe because he was kind and caring to the natives.
		Father Lacombe’s dream was to be a missionary so he could help the natives.
	projects.cbe.ab.ca /ict/2learn/jkshpur/legacies/lacombe.html (396 words)

	Alberta: How the West was Young - Fur Trade and Mission History - Father Lacombe Mission
		Anne and his interest in the Métis led him to propose the creation of a new mission that would be the centrepiece of a Métis settlement between Fort Edmonton and Lac Ste.
		This location was ideal for his purposes as it offered a chance to develop an agricultural settlement based on river lots, while still allowing residents to retain an interest in the buffalo hunting, freighting and plains trading that had been mainstays of Métis life for decades.
		Lacombe quickly completed a small chapel and residence on a hill above the river, and began clearing land for crops.
	www.abheritage.ca /alberta/fur_trade/site_profiles_father_lacombe.html (908 words)

	Canadian Railway Hall of Fame - Father Albert Lacombe
		Father Albert Lacombe was a French-speaking Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who lived among the Cree and Blackfoot First Nations of western Canada.
		Being a trusted friend and able to communicate with the First Nation leaders, Father Lacombe was able to negotiate with Chief Crowfoot of the Blackfoot to bring an end to the dispute, allowing the construction of the CPR to continue.
		In poignant respect for Father Lacombe, his body was buried in the crypt at the St. Albert Parish Church in Cree territory, and his heart interred in Blackfoot territory at Midnapore, south of Calgary.
	railfame.ca /sec_ind/leaders/en_2006_LacombeA.asp (433 words)

	AlbertaFirst.com - St. Albert
		Albert's engineering and landscaping standards are among the highest of any metro Edmonton municipality, resulting in well-treed and maintained residential streets, grassed boulevards and attractive perimeter fencing.
		Albert is part of the Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division #29, headquartered in St. Albert [Tel: (780)459-7711], and the St.
		Albert is served by more than a dozen local and major regional trucking firms with carrier tariffs usually including St. Albert as a delivery point in the Edmonton area with no additional charges.
	www.albertafirst.com /profiles/statspack/20378.html (3431 words)

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