Where is fort quappelle

Signing up enhances your TCE experience with the ability to save items to your personal reading list, and access the interactive map. Fort Qu'Appelle, Sask, incorporated as a town in , population c , c. An Anglican mission was established there in , and 10 years later the Hudson's Bay Company erected a provisioning post and district headquarters. The Cree and Saulteaux signed Treaty 4 at this site in , and a year later a North-West Mounted Police outpost was established near the present townsite.

The fort was chosen by General Middleton as a temporary headquarters and base of operations for his troops on the way to Batoche during the Northwest Rebellion of View Our Privacy Policy. Fast Facts The population of Fort Qu'appelle is with a trading area population of over 12, people. The All Nations Healing Hospital is a unique health facility providing holistic and integrated approaches to health care. Recreation and Outdoors The natural beauty of the area attracts thousands of tourists all year long.

Links Coming Soon! Designation Date: Event, Person, Organization:. Indian Treaty no. There were only three Roman Catholic missionaries from the Red River serving the west during this period and no further record is available until , when Bishop Tache passed through the valley on his way to Ile a la Crosse. There is a tale told of how Bishop Tache and his party came into the valley on this trip at a point on the north side overlooking the place where the Mission was later established.

In October of the following year Bishop Tache came back to the valley and stayed at Fort Qu'Appelle with Peter Hourie for a four-week period conducting services and ministering the people.

He chose the site for the Mission, later to become the village of Lebret. In the spring of Abbe Ritchot of St. Norbert, Manitoba, was sent to open the Mission, building a house-chapel of logs with thatched roof. Father Jules Decorby, Oblate Missionary, came to Lebret in the summer of as resident priest for families in the area.

Records show he erected a cross on the hill in to commemorate the place where Bishop Tache entered the valley, and today a cross can be seen on the north hill overlooking Lebret. Father J. In Father Hugonard came to assist Father Decorby, who then moved out along the trails. In missionary Father St. Germain joined the group.

Records show the famous Father Lacombe visited Lebret in and again in The Mission became the centre from which the early missionaries travelled to serve and visit thirty-two posts in this far flung unsettled land from St. Lazare, Manitoba, to Milk River in Alberta. An interesting record is that Tom Kavanagh seeded a bushel of wheat which yielded forty bushels in The little log church was destroyed by fire in , and rebuilt in of wood construction, later modified and enlarged.

It was used for church services until and was demolished in The present church was built in He also built the Seminary across the lake from the Mission in Hugonard was placed in charge of the Mission in , succeeding Father Decorby. About the same time he opened a mission school in the rectory, with he and Mr.

Brunet as teachers. In Father Hugonard built the first residential school in the West, financed by the Dominion Government of the day, for the training of Indian boys and girls.

Father Lacombe established a school in Alberta about this time as well. The first year fifteen children enrolled; in the school was enlarged to house students.

The school and its program became famous under the guidance and the principalship of Father Hugonard. Few missionaries have gained the stature and respect he had. Indian and white alike acclaimed his achievemnents as missionary, conciliator and educator. Chief Sitting Bull on his visit to Fort Qu'Appelle learned of a large shipment of flour coming to the Mission and they depended on it for food, but he suggested that if they could arrive at a price, he would sell flour to him and give the proceeds to his people.

The story is told that Sitting Bull remained silent for a time then took his blanket and asked how much flour it would buy. Trading of blankets, ponies, etc.