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Albert Lacombe OMI (28 February 1827 – 12 December 1916), known as Father Lacombe, was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who travelled among and evangelized the Cree and also visited the Blackfoot First Nations of northwestern Canada.
James Evans (January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846) was an English-Canadian Wesleyan Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is known for creating the syllabic writing system for Ojibwe and Cree , which was later adapted to other languages such as Inuktitut .
Canadian aboriginal may refer to: Aboriginal peoples in Canada; Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, a script; See also. Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Unicode block)
Canadian people who worked as missionaries, whether in Canada or elsewhere. (For Christian missionaries who worked in Canada, see Category:Christian missionaries in Canada ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Missionaries from Canada .
Lillian Dickson (29 January 1901 – 14 January 1983) was an independent missionary, author, and public speaker. She used her maternal identity to develop her vocation in the middle of the twentieth century. [2]
As many Wikipedians interested in Canadian history know, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB) is a significant resource for biographical detail, especially for people that died before 1930. To date, I ( Fawcett5 ) have made a relatively large scale effort to find pre-existing articles corresponding to people in the DCB, and to create an ...
George Millward McDougall (September 9, 1821 – January 25, 1876) was a Methodist missionary in Canada who assisted in negotiations leading to Treaty 6 and Treaty 7 between the Canadian government and Indigenous nations of the prairies and what is now western Canada. He founded missions and schools for First Nations in what is now Alberta.
Peter Jones (January 1, 1802 – June 29, 1856) was an Ojibwe Methodist minister, translator, chief and author from Burlington Heights, Upper Canada.His Ojibwa name was Kahkewāquonāby (Gakiiwegwanebi in the Fiero spelling), which means "[Sacred] Waving Feathers".