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Lac La Biche Mission

Lac La Biche Mission National Historic Site on the shore of Lac La Biche, Alberta, photographed in 2012.
Lac La Biche Mission National Historic Site on the shore of Lac La Biche, Alberta, photographed in 2012. Lac La Biche Mission · Grapher78 · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Notre Dame des Victoires / Lac La Biche Mission in Alberta, established by the Oblates in 1853 in the lands of the nêhiyawak (Cree) and other First Nations and the Métis homeland, was created to convert First Nations and Métis peoples to Christianity and became a supply hub for northern missions. From the 1860s its school, run by the Grey Nuns, was among the Catholic Church’s earliest experiments in residential education in the northwest.

Scope & context

The mission’s role as described in its reviewed designation, not the residential school system as a whole (see CA-K029).

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