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VICARIATE APOSTOLIC OF KEEWATIN

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The Vicariate Apostolic of Keewatin includes the northern half of the Province
of Saskatchewan, and is bounded on the north by the Arctic regions, on the south
by the Archdiocese of St. Boniface, on the east by Temiskaming Vicariate, and on
the west by the Diocese of St. Albert and the Vicariate of Athabaska. The
country in general is barren and uninteresting, though possessing some timber
and mineral resources; it is sparsely inhabited by Indians, half-breeds, and a
few whites. It was first visited by pioneer missionaries in the nineteenth
century, when Mgr. Provencher, Bishop of St. Boniface, sent Abbé Thibault to
Ile-à-la-Crosse (1845), Abbé Laflèche (later Bishop of Three Rivers) to explore
the Cumberland district (1846), and Father Taché, O.M.I. (later Archbishop of
St. Boniface), to join Laflèche at Ile-à-la-Crosse (1846), and thence visit Lake
Caribou (1847). These and surrounding missions were subsequently served by
Oblates of the Manitoba or Alberta-Saskatchewan Provinces. Prominent among these
since 1887 has been the Rev. Ovide Charleboix whose administrative capacities,
proved during sixteen years' ministry at Fort Cumberland, led in 1900 to his
nomination as Visitor of the Cumberland District Indian Missions, in 1903, to
his appointment as director of Duck Lake Indian Industrial school, and, in 1910,
to his preconization as titular Bishop of Berenice and Vicar Apostolic of
Keewatin, with residence at Le Pas. There are in the vicariate: 15 Oblate
Fathers of Mary Immaculate, 8 Oblate Brothers of Mary Immaculate, 12 Grey Nuns
(Montreal), 16 Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate (St.
Boniface), 4 Grey Nuns (St. Hyacinth), 10 churches with 16 out-stations; 11,000
Indians, Montagnais, Cree, and Esquimaux, of whom 7000 are Catholics and 5000
non-Catholics or pagans (chiefly Esquimaux). Indian boarding schools at Norway
House (Oblate Sisters, 20 pupils), Lac Laplonge [ Grey Nuns (Montreal), 50
pupils], a general hospital at Le Pas [ Grey Nuns (St. Hyacinth), 25 beds], a
Catholic (French-English) school at Le Pas [ Grey Nuns (St. Hyacinth)].


SOURCES

TACHE, Vingt annees de missions; BENOIT, Vie de Mgr. Tache, I (Montreal),
passim; CHARLEBOIS, Debuts d'un eveque missionnaire (Montreal).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Daniel, J.E. (1914). Vicariate Apostolic of Keewatin. In The
Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: The Encyclopedia Press.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16049a.htm

MLA citation. Daniel, J.E. "Vicariate Apostolic of Keewatin." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 16 (Index). New York: The Encyclopedia Press, 1914.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16049a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Herman F.
Holbrook. O Virgin of virgins/Neither before was any like thee nor shall there
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Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1914. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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