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Seeking the Story of Mission Beach
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serv.focus(); } //--> </script> </head> <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <div id="stChild"> <div class="sc" id="sc1"> <h4 class="float-left">1</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> The history of Rundle's Mission is connected to the people and places of the region, before and during the settlement era, beginning in 1840 and continuing to the beginning of the 20th century. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc2"> <h4 class="float-right">2</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Pigeon Lake is located in central Alberta, Canada.<br />1860<br /> Alberta, Canada<br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#1" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=147083','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=800,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADZQ/0001/image/storycard/ADZQ00010005.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc3"> <h4 class="float-left">3</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> Robert Terrill Rundle was chaplain to the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Edmonton and a missionary among the First Nations people of the region, from 1840 to 1848. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc4"> <h4 class="float-right">4</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> The Reverend Dr. Gerald M. Hutchinson<br />2004<br /> <br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=76574&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FADZQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Seeking+the+Story+of+Mission+Beach&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_4_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_4_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#2" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=147080','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=652,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADZQ/0001/image/storycard/ADZQ00010002.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc5"> <h4 class="float-left">5</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> The following vignettes are based on conversations with Gerald Hutchinson. In 1992, Rev. Hutchinson related the story of Rundle's Mission and his own experience as a United Church of Canda minister to a gathering of colleagues and lay people. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc6"> <h4 class="float-right">6</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> The Chapel in London, England, at which John Wesley preached.<br />1820<br /> London, England<br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=76577&remP=%2Fmedia%2Fhdcn-cm%2FADZQ%2F0001%2Faudio%2FADZQ00010007.asf&remEx=Seeking+the+Story+of+Mission+Beach&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('audioIcon_6_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/audio_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/audio_off.gif" alt="AUDIO ATTACHMENT" name="audioIcon_6_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=76578&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FADZQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Seeking+the+Story+of+Mission+Beach&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_6_2','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_6_2" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#3" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=147084','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=800,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADZQ/0001/image/storycard/ADZQ00010006.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc7"> <h4 class="float-left">7</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> Gerald Hutchinson:<br /> ... He founded only one mission. And that was located just here on the shores of Pigeon Lake. He was part of a much larger scheme in which the British Wesleyan Mission Society and the Hudson's Bay Company-- with their head offices in London, England-- agreed on an unusual partnership of Company and Church: to send a team of four men to the Hudson's Bay territories. The Reverend James Evans was a superintendent living at Norway House, north of Lake Winnipeg. George Barnley was at Moose Factory at the south end of Hudson's Bay. William Mason was further south of Manitoba at Rainy Lake. And Robert Rundle was based at Fort Edmonton…so he had this whole western region to roam in. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc8"> <h4 class="float-right">8</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> The Reverend Robert Rundle.<br />1860<br /> England<br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=76579&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FADZQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Seeking+the+Story+of+Mission+Beach&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_8_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_8_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#4" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=147085','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=362,height=465')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADZQ/0001/image/storycard/ADZQ00010008.jpg" ></span></a> <span class="cmStoryLineText">Credits:<br />Glenbow Archives NA 5893<br></span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc9"> <h4 class="float-left">9</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> At the time, the Hudson's Bay Company faced criticism in Britain, over allegations of its treatment of native people and their impoverishment. Seeking to address this situation, the Company offered to sponsor Methodist missionaries. The Methodist Church in England worked among the urban poor and its ability to work in difficult situations made it a likely alliance for the Company. <br /> <br /> As one of these four Methodist missionaries, Robert Rundle came to a land marked by the fur trade economy. To the north of the North Saskatchewan River, the Company influenced the Cree peoples to expand their territory to the west and south. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc10"> <h4 class="float-right">10</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Rupertsland was comprised of all land draining into the Hudson Bay.<br />1869<br /> Canada<br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=76618&remP=%2Fmedia%2Fhdcn-cm%2FADZQ%2F0001%2Faudio%2FADZQ00010041.asf&remEx=Seeking+the+Story+of+Mission+Beach&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('audioIcon_10_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/audio_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/audio_off.gif" alt="AUDIO ATTACHMENT" name="audioIcon_10_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=76619&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FADZQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Seeking+the+Story+of+Mission+Beach&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_10_2','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_10_2" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#5" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=147123','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=800,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADZQ/0001/image/storycard/ADZQ00010040.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc11"> <h4 class="float-left">11</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> Gerald Hutchinson:<br /> ...From the Saskatchewan River south was completely First Nations country, occupied and controlled by the Stoney [Nakoda], the Cree, the Bloods [Kainai] and the Blackfoot. The operation of Hudson's Bay in the region gave new impetus to the Cree. Trading gave them new tools and money to work with and they became hunters, gatherers and fur traders. Because of this, the Cree took the initiative and moved west, then through the north country and onto the plains as well. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc12"> <h4 class="float-right">12</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Map of the region travelled by Rundle in 1841.<br />1841<br /> Alberta, Canada<br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=76585&remP=%2Fmedia%2Fhdcn-cm%2FADZQ%2F0001%2Faudio%2FADZQ00010010.asf&remEx=Seeking+the+Story+of+Mission+Beach&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('audioIcon_12_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/audio_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/audio_off.gif" alt="AUDIO ATTACHMENT" name="audioIcon_12_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#6" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=147090','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=670,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADZQ/0001/image/storycard/ADZQ0001000f.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc13"> <h4 class="float-left">13</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> Gerald Hutchinson:<br /> ...They could follow the river around to Fort Edmonton and to Rocky Mountain House but the rest of it was off limits. So when the Plains or Northern tribes wanted to meet the Hudson's Bay traders, they met at Rocky Mountain House. That was the gathering point. And Rundle's Mission was established on the margin between Hudson's Bay territory and First Nations territory, accessible from both sides. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc14"> <h4 class="float-right">14</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Assinaboine Camp<br />1870<br /> Central Alberta<br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=76584&remP=%2Fmedia%2Fhdcn-cm%2FADZQ%2F0001%2Faudio%2FADZQ0001000e.asf&remEx=Seeking+the+Story+of+Mission+Beach&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('audioIcon_14_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/audio_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/audio_off.gif" alt="AUDIO ATTACHMENT" name="audioIcon_14_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#7" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=147089','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=800,height=558')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADZQ/0001/image/storycard/ADZQ0001000d.jpg" ></span></a> <span class="cmStoryLineText">Credits:<br />National Library and Archives of Canada c081792<br></span> </div> <table id="scNav"><tr> <td width="172" style="text-align:left;"><a href="pm_v2.php?id=story_line_child&fl=&lg=English&ex=00000623&sl=5007&pos=1&scpos=1" id="scJumpFirst" class="scLink"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/sc_start.gif" width="10" height="9" /></a></td> <td width="170" style="text-align:right;"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="flip(this.id, 0, 1, 18);" id="scPrev" class="scLink"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/sc_prev.gif" width="9" height="9"></a><a href="pm_v2.php?id=story_line_child&fl=&lg=English&ex=00000623&sl=5007&pos=1&scpos=0" id="scJumpPrev" class="scLink"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/sc_prev.gif" width="9" height="9" /></a></td> <td width="174" style="text-align:left;"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="flip(this.id, 0, 1, 18);" id="scNext" class="scLink"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/sc_next.gif" width="9" height="9"></a><a href="pm_v2.php?id=story_line_child&fl=&lg=English&ex=00000623&sl=5007&pos=14&scpos=1" id="scJumpNext" class="scLink"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/sc_next.gif" width="9" height="9" /></a></td> <td width="172" style="text-align:right;"><a href="pm_v2.php?id=story_line_child&fl=&lg=English&ex=00000623&sl=5007&pos=17&scpos=1" id="scJumpLast" class="scLink"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/sc_last.gif" width="10" height="9" /></a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="scSplit" id="scSplit" /> </body> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var scCount = 14; var scShowing = []; flip("scPos", 1, 1, 18); </script>
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