Mackenzie (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Constant Giroux · 1913
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Description
Mackenzie is a vicariate cut from Athabaska-Mackenzie in 1901 and entrusted to Bishop Gabriel Breynat. It is bounded west by the Rockies, south by the sixtieth parallel, east by the watershed, and open north to the pole. Over half a million square miles hold six nomad tribes, Montagnais, Slave, Flat-dog-side, Hare, Loucheux, and Eskimo, totalling 6,000 souls.
Oblates, at work since 1858, brought the Catholic faith to all but the still pagan Eskimo and some four hundred Protestants. Dog teams are the only travel, the sky the only roof, mail comes once from September to July, and provisions once a year by steamer. Living on charity, chiefly French Propagation of the Faith funds, twenty fathers and twenty-one brothers keep twelve missions, with Gray Nuns teaching orphans at Providence and Fort Resolution.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Constant Giroux |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |