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About Rev. Albert Lacombe
Albert Lacombe (1827-1916) was a French-Canadian Catholic missionary who lived with and evangelized the Cree and Blackfoot First Nations of Northwestern Canada. He brokered a peace between the Cree and Blackfoot and negotiated construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway through Blackfoot territory.
- He was born in Saint-Sulpice, Québec to Albert Lacombe and Agathe Duhamel. He was ordained on 13 June 1849.
- He was sent to Pembina, Minnesota where he worked with Father Belcourt from 1949-51.
- He was missionary in northwestern Canada for most of the rest of his life.
- He translated the bible into Cree along with Constantine Scollen in 1870. He also wrote a grammar and dictionary in Cree.
- He traveled to Europe and visited the Vatican and Pope Leo XIII and the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph in 1900.
- In 1904-05 he traveled again to Europe and visited Pope Pius X
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About Rév. Père Albert Lacombe (Français)
Rév. Père Albert Lacombe (1827-1916), né à Saint-Sulpice d'Albert Lacombe et d'Agathe Duhamel. Il entra chez les Oblats de Marie-Immaculée et ordonné à Montréal le 13 juin 1849.
- Il fut un contemporain de Mgr Bourget, Mgr Taché et l'abbé Belcourt.
- Missionnaire dans l'ouest canadien, depuis 1849
- il était chargé de la desserte spirituelle des nombreux ouvriers catholiques employés à la construction du Pacifique Canadien
- En 1900 Il fut reçu au Vatican par Léon XIII et à la cour d'Autriche par l'empereur François-Joseph.
- En 1904-05 If fut un dernier voyage à Rome, où il eut la joie d'être béni par Pie X
- Auteur d'un dictionnaire et d'une grammaire en lange cree (1873)
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Rev. Albert Lacombe's Timeline
| 1827 |
February 28, 1827
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Saint-Sulpice, Québec, Canada
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| 1916 |
December 12, 1916
Age 89
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Midnapore, Alberta, Canada
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