A HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY OVERVIEW OF FIRST NATIONS AND METIS LIFE IN THE MCCAULEY NEIGHBOURHOOD

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ina1Booklet_v9.indd 2 2016·11·07 9:f McCau.Jey isaamb'al F.dmonton three generations; Fort Edmonton neighbourhood that ia bordered was a place wba,e M6ti&culture In the north by 111 Avenue/ would thrive and their mUgious Norwood Boulevard, to the west beliafs. Q1}twe andttadftions by 101 Street, and in the south would domlnabl the Alberta land east by the LRI' line and the Com- .«:a_pa, oday, the Mdlfs settlements monwaalthStadium. lhatevolvedat Fort.Edmonton, LacSfe.Anne,and~ Albertare Bebe discussing the tndfgenous distentramindars oftheir lTbe history ofMcCauley, ll as import- ~ central role in the loo.nding ant to nicosnize.ageneral hJstmy ofour province." oflndlgenous settlement in the Ed.monlon area. Alberta is home to 45 FirstNation communltie& in Tteaties o, 7, and Oral history and ardJea1osica1 8,and eight M6tls Seltlemenls. mdance reveal that~ Alberta is the only~ Peoples lived in the Edmonton with officially rer-Ogl'tud ~is m:Qa Corover8,000yuarsand SattJements.Edmonton is Jocatad pov1dnd SJgnifimnt cuntrlbution.11 in 'Iniaty 6 lerritoey 1naty 8 was b tha sua:ei,s ofthe fur trade of signef) on AugUst.23rd, 1876. the.Hodson~Bay and North West ThBCree name for Edmonton is Comparues. Prior lOEilropeall Amiskwaclwbskohikan. which expknrs and traders visiting the means 'Beaver Hilla House' Tbs EdmontCJtl arm, the tmtilory was neare,stMdlfsSettlementsare inhabited by many lruligneous Buffalo Lake and Kikfuo. 111a ~ lncludlngmembers nearestF'irstNations within 15 km or the Ass1nibofue, Blackfoot. of Edmonton are Alexander First Cree, Dene, lioquols. Salteamc. Nation Al8'ds Pim Nation, &locli and Sioux Nations. They lived Cn,eNation, Louis Bull Tribe. for generations With unique cul- Montana First Nat.ion Paul First t1Il1ll, governance and ec:onomic Nation Sadd1e Lake Cree Nation system11 that ndaled to ~unique and Samaon Cree Nation. enviranmentaJ faetwes of the regJ011. not the least ofwhich was ThePa~ F.irlltNat.ion th&expaIWve:Bomalforastand \Yhilc notofficiallv reoognimi QS kisfs]c ct\\'IUIH pay (swift&wing a First Nation by the federal p river}. emmenL bas many descendantt througl;lout Edmonton. Their Known by manylndlgeoous ancestors livedm what is now Peoples as 1\lttle-lsland, the the Rosadale Flats and lUvet arrival of Europeans In Omada. Valley with a desl9nated reserve brought about the intermarrillge of that stretched across the North tndigenaus Peoples with Fnmcb Sasbtchewa.n River and mto Scottish, and English settlers. "For Mill Woods. :I

ina1Booklel_v9.indd 3 2016·11·07 10:( Lac le. Anne rena med by Rev. Jtmn-Baptiste Thibau lt of t he Obi tes (wa, originally call d Wakamne or God' Lake by the Na kota First Nation and M n ito Sa hkah igan or Spirit Lake by tho Cre1. . ) Rundle Mis.,;ion e ·tablished by Robert Terrill Rund le, Wes! yan chaplain with Hud ·on'sBay Company (HBC). Victoria Settlement established by Rev. George McDougall Ruportslund, when tran ·ferrecl to Ca nada from HBC. L in habited by ma ny First Nations a nd Meti .

Treaty 6 is signed at Fort Carlton. Saskatc hewan. The Tr .at y co ·ors ection. of Alberta. Saska! hewa n. and includes fi fly nal ions. In I h ti Ed mun tun arna. I his inr lu lt!s 15 nali( ns uf Cw u, Nakota Sioux, and Done Peoples. Ed monton. its origi nal Cree na me being Amiskiracimiskahikan (moan ing "8caver Hills House") i in orporat cd as a town. Edmonton bec;omes a city. Boyle Street and Mc aul y are two ol the t.ity' lirst netghbourh11ocls. Thti M1:C:aule, Ut!lghbourho ti ci d .ri\'P. it · 11amH [rnm Eclmonton· first Mayor. Matthew McCauley (1892-94). and was a member of the Honw Guard forming to protecl ott lers during the Riel Re istan .u in Hatorhe.

Alberta boc;omes H province.

Frequently overlooked is the knowledge that this city was first settled and. urvuyod as rivur lot end "tho asl majority of river lot occupant s oa both sides of the North Saskatchewa n in the 1870s were eithor l'vfet L on the one hand , or. 011 th othor ha nd. Presbyterian and l\nglophon fir t-gl•n1:1rntion immigrant. trom the Orkntt~ I land or other areas of Sc:orln nd, u suully married lo Matis women.'"'

Citations· 1. Castles to Forts, a true history of Edmonton by Phillip R. Coutu, Edmonton: Thun de1 woman Ethnographics, 2004. 2. Old Strathcona: Ed mon ton's Southsidt Roots by Tom Manto and Metis Scrathcano by Rondy Lawren ce, Edm onton: Pioneer Press, 2011

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ina1Booklet_v9.indd 4 2016-11-07 10:( A name can frequently locate an individual in a nation. language group. and familv lineage.

Tho names of First Nations end Melis individuals involved in the fur and pemmican trade are still present in McCauley and Qther Edmonton neighbourhoods today. a testament to their leadership and contributions in building the communities of which they are.a part.

First Nations and M6tis names prevalenl in the Bl'ea (there are too many to mention them all): Arcand. Alexis, Belcourt, Belrose, Bnd, Brosseau, Bruneau, Buffalo. Cardinal. Coto, Crier, Celihoo, Couteoreille, Courtepatte. Cunningham, Daigneault, Donald. Daniels, Delorme, Desjarlais, Dumont, Flett, Gladue, Houle, Ladouceur. Laderoute. Letendre, L'birondolle, Lussieur. Morin. Poitras, Sinclair, Steinhauer. St. Germaine. Quinn, Ward. Indigenous peoples with names such as these, and many other names, reside, work, use services, shop, go to restaurants and fesUva]s, and/or attend one of the many churches on Church Street (96 Street between 107 and 111 Avenues). 5

ina1Booklet_v9.indd 5 2016·11-07 10:1 ina1Booklet_v9.indd 6 2016-11-07 10:( ina1Booklet_v9.indd 7 2016-11-07 10:< Ambrose Place 1s named aft tr Ambro1e Daniels who rn(fmd htalth 1$suts as an lronwor~tr, and rht resulting untmploymtnl and addicttons orctd hrm to lwE on tht street where ht died of pneumonia at the age 53 . Faye Dewar, once Ambrost's soc,al worker, lobbied upon his death for such a housm9 fac,lrtv

Ambrose, who always bad a toothpick mhis mouth, was born and raised on the Bu(folo lde MEtis Settlement, 125 km northeast of Edmonton, and rs remembered as bting m,sch,evous and pmonabfe He btcamt rtcogmied on tht street as an Eldir who helped others, as evidenced by the Ambrose Donirls Voluntm Award given vmrvat Boyle Srrttt Community Sm1ces .

·1,emember him breaking up flghU m the Boyle Strm drop-rn 011 multiple occas,ons; says John Ctr, a farm er employu of Bissell Centre "He was a tmv, disabled man but when he got in between two big guys who were f1gh1,n9, the y would 1.11,c of( He was respected by emyone there.·

c;,e adds, ·1 also remember tllot the nurses ,n Sttemvorks u!.ed to look aftrr his foot wh,cli was chronically mftcted. It used to ma ke rhem laugh eho1 he tolktd about 'my ~lister whl'n ,r was o£tually much worse than that H showed great dttermrnat,on ,n dea ling w1 ha vuy drfftcult ltfe. •

·1 know rhat vou can nt11er g111e up on human bemgs Emybodv has the ability 10 chongt ,f hty ft 1Jovrd .

Carola Cunningham, who has an uunsive background m indigenous program design/managtment, pre­ employment, and l1fe skills , has been tht Executive D11ector of Ambrosi Place smu 11 opened ,n 014 .

She rs the daughter of Or Chesm R Cunnm9ham Ckl, LLD -IMtis from Stave Lakt Alberto -who was !hi rec,p,ent of the 1000 Afbertn Order of Euelltnu as a human,tarron and rduca 01 because he was a Wtless MetlS leode;, wuhu, and spr1J ,tr 011 I or/about rnllrgenous Pfoples mAlberta , North Amen a. ollll thf world

Sources: "Ambrose Place ,n !llcCaulrv gives Edmonton homclm hope· CBC Nrws.co Thursdov Fet 12, 1015 Government or AlberttJ wrbs,re; The Al be rta OuJer oi Extt ll encr

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ina1Booklet_v9.indd 8 2016-11-07 10:( Our Lad of the Atonement Home opened as Catholic boarding school b the Franci can 1 ters in 1928 The 24- bed residence operated u a temporary shelter to bo and girls. ages 3-12 bile Alberta ocial Service goals ero to return th hildron to their natural families or suitable foster born .

Alex Lameman (Cardinal}, who resides in Edmonton lived at the Atonement Home during the 1960 from the ages of t o lo nina )ears old and reftet t d negatively about thl time in bi lifi at tonement Home (referti.ng to it a a "prlson" and lating that It was a wor "hellhole"). Al and hi sister Lillian, Rose and Irene were then moved to foster home upon leaving th tonemenl Home.

ton ment Home was- requ ted to be added to the list of Indian Re tdontial chools recognized by th Indian R idenlial bools Settlement Agreement. However, bet:au e there as no clear federal government involvement with it operations, it it was left off the list.•

Sourc,s· l "OlildmlsSlldrirlllClmr,"DiaaaCOldtlr, EdlnollrDlt,,_.,,,-21.1987. 2.rnrirvfa,wilnNtJtUIIINII. J. lltty//ww~ll~~-p(

ina1Booklet_v9.indd 9 2016-11-07 10:( The c.: ntre had it. early b ginnings a the All People's Mission in 1910 through the direction of Rev. W.H. Pike, a Methodi t minister who w ished to provide immigrant services and language training to Ukrainia n immigrants.'

With money donated from the estate of T.E. Bissell in 1936. the er ice was housed in an old blacksmith' shop at 103A Avenue and 96 Stroet. and later moved lo its now luc.:al ion.

Bissell provides services ranging from childcare, and youth development programs. to women's program for support und development.

lnnor City Pastoral Ministry in an interdenominational Christian outreach !lervic. e that meets al Bissell Cont re and grew in re pon e to tho number of Indigenous clients of th Bissell Centre and becau of I he 2015 Truth and 10 Rtt1,ond lic1tion Commission's linal lwar ings 10 Erlmonton.

ina1Booklet_v9.indd 10 2016-11-07 10:( (Standing Stones refers to stones used to mark food caches, ceremonial sites etc.) .. ,s a gathering in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples explore God" in a Cree context.

Lay mi.Jiistry in this inter-denominational Christian practice Incorporate Christian beliefs with Cree spititual tradition and language with terms such as oskapewis that loosely moans "helper" in Cree. Oskapewis in the Cree tradition undertake a lengthy spiritual mentorship with an elder or medicine person by asslsUng them with all the ceremonies, acquire teachings and learn to Jive a life of dcdicatmg oneself to the service of others and the Great Spirit's teaching. Other Cree spiritual beliefs celebrated through this ministry are recognition of the four elements and sacred d irections, smudging and sacred medicines oral storytelling, and the &baring of bannock and berries.

is Cree from the Kawacatoose First Nation in Saskatchewan.'

with the Anglican Church of Canada, was born in Edmonton and raised in McCauley. Her parents were Arohie Letendre and Carolyn Belcourt from Lac.Ste. Anne.•

Soilrm 1·ao vurs as on oasu 111 1n11tr-c1ty ffltlt. Rattner i.oy,r, Edmonton Journ•I 2. Anglic,n o,omt of Edmonton ladlfraous Milust,v p1mphlrt 3. http://doJ11stlet crc11t.org/011t11or/111icbt11t-n1mado111v 4 lntmiew with Sharon Posulo 11

ina!Booktet_v9.indd 11 2016-11-07 10:l A nu11-prr,lil c:urnmunily health . ntre. the BMHC v. as u labltsh •d in 1979 to offo r medic:al a nd denta l t•r ice lo inner city clients, many uf whom nre n l lnern ble and may have trou ble ac:c;c ing mPcl ical allnnlion. Thi inc:l ucfo· 11 lurge num borufc.lient of lndigcn us d1 1, mt.

This clinic is the purtnursh ip nf the Edmonton_ utive Healing Conlre and tho Boyle McCuuluy Hea lth Centre. It opened March 11. 2010 in thn Inglewood area. Offering a varlet_ of modic:al services. it,. a p 1slll\'" 11111,alivr• hr. 11 in I< fill g, ps that hav lw n I ·ft in service: to First ation · a11d Meli pcopl .

ina1Booklet_v9.indd 12 2016-11-07 10:( In 1993, the Centre for~ and Culture grew out ofthe Northern Alberta Alliance on Rece Relations es an expanded service which seeks to advance intetcultural understanding and tolerance on the individual collective and-systemic levels in the community through research, comnmnity building. wcdplace development, and education. The Centre for Race and Culture provides consu1Ung services and collaborates with clients in-research, course design and development. and traifilns.

Cree language instruction has been offered through the CRC for the past four years under the guidance ofR ubcn Qu'n , originally from Saddle Lake First Nations-son of Maurice Quinn and Elizabeth Houle. Reuben's father's Side extends back to Papastayo. In 1877, Chief Papascbase and his people signed 'fteaty 6 for land in the southeast part of Edmonton. which was eventually absorbed by the City of&lmonton . Many proud Papascbase descendants- currently reside m Edmonton, ;uthough the band 1s not yet offle1all) recognized b the federal govenunent. A step towards recognition occurroJl in May of 2014 through a swearing-in ceremony for ChiefCalvin Bruneau and council by the City of Edmonton. The City ofEdmonton was present at the swearing-in ceremony for Chief Calvin Bruneau and council, and presented funding aupport for a research project to the Papa~ Cree Nation Society.

Mr.Quinn teaches through the Nehiyaw(Croe) Cllhkipenhikanak (syllabics) method referred to as Spirit Mark81li (Star Chart) which he learned from Rosanne Houle of Saddle Lake and Carolyu HuntutofGoodftsb Lake.

sources: ww cfrac.com flttps-1/tn witi,ed1t org/wlkr/Papisdlosr

ina!BookleLv9.lndd 13 2018-11-07 10:( Tho Garden of'lruth i. a c.om munity garden to "honour and commmnorato'' indigenous history in Edmonton uud in re. ponse Lo Lh lrulh and Reconciliation Commission's iuve ·tigation into Indian Rcsidenticil School . Th garden, . Hua.led on the sit of a previou gas station, will hi:! lunded by rosidcnls of tl1e nearby Excul uci t. and is made pO'-sil.ile IJ 1h ! ( ii\ ol Edmonton's Alterna1in, Brownfii Id Grunt. tar cling parcel. of land with petrochemical conta minat ion.

Thi· gn1 Pn spacr. will b d sign d in consultation, ith i1 n Indigenous Elder who was yet lo be n11med at lh u time of Lhi publication.

Source "'Gorden of Truth to end bllgh of old gos srat ,on 1n Edmonton rngllbaurhood; Ellsr Stolte, £dmcmton Journa l Jarruarv 17, 2016. 14

ina1Booklet_v9.indd 14 2016-11-07 10:( Located on 95 Stroet (formed) Syndkale ~venue) and 108 Avenue lhil'I park usnd to bo cm lied Patr1 ia Park tlWlll d after veterans of the Prin ess Pctriaia s Light In antn. 11 ,-.es alto referred lo a Gvro Park because of tl10 1~21 G\'TD ('Jub:i pla\'grnund movcm nt,

Th, I P. :q [ bt changorl to Giovanni Cal to Park and m 1981 members o the Giovanni Caboto Cultural So et Ji 'ng m th• area su ss ~ bad Lhr. namo hanged

GiO\ an111 Caboto was a colonlal explorer red1tod with dtsco,ermg North America ThIS inte?rpretahon of l 1st or docs not ac ount forlht?prc contucl mhabitahon nfNorth mcrica by Ind1genou. pcopl~ll Howe,cr todn 1hn park 1s a ne,ghbourbood hub and pla~ s host tu nu1nurm,s h:tdlg n ms oanmurutJ c, cnt .

Cnboto Park hosts many gathenngs and fe t1VHls throughout the veur Somc-oftb manv c\c,nts that held m the park are Heart ofthcCit\ MusicandArtsFest1v and tbeEdmontonand D1str1ct Lab ur Coun II Labour DaJ BBQ A though the c arc no , lh In l I I• l I • Lil 11 1 k I oflhl.s publication. Hearl oftheC1t o ten fea res F'rs Nation artists mclod mg d rumn ing groups ".Mterc have also br.cn a number of onc--tumi e\•t•nts 1mr.h as ones p 11011led by W1oh1towm nd lcbratlons of A 101 igina 1-hsl r~ Month orga 1zod by a variclv of communitv groups.

Sources: https iwww.forttdmontonpark.u/19zo-stnttllllt·ployg1ound-m0Vlllltnt-tdtnontoru­ gyro ploy9roullds i"Tht Nomt Gamt To~r vour ptek, 1tol1a11 utra nron, cm, canod1an Rtg S lmttr. Edmonton Bulltt! Septtmbtr 1981

inaIBooklet_v9.indd 15 2016-11-07 10:( Known toda 'ns Chur .h St r el, It was originally call Kinistino Avenue unli l 1913. Kinistino is a word b Ii \'ed to possibly hr. Cree in origin, but whoso meaning is debated. Ac.curding to Gar_ Garrison and Sara Coutnflnlura kis in McCauley Tho11 and. ow: A Wolk Thrr.> ugli Om~ oJEdmunton'· Fir ·t :Veiglibourfw ods (City of Edmrmton/MtCaulay Rev it 11l izat ion , 201 3}: '

In Ancirnt Land Ancitnt Sky. Tbt True Story of tht Dis comy of Canada, Ptttr Mc Farlant and Wayne Haimila say that tht fir st Europtans to enter the interior of ~orth Amtrica "mangltd and often mispronounced some diffic ult name.1, often bevond recognition. Tht best exam pit of th is wos tht Ktn1sttnaag people living aroun dJames Bay. Tht French first mispronounced their name as Kmtinau~ and then shortened the mtSnom er to Cris-, Wh!Ch the English then rendered as Cree: Then thtre·s Chief Kin is tln, tht nrst ltadrr of tht Kin1stin Saulteau~ Nation in Saskatchewan . According to a Gov!rnmtnt (If Saskatchewan website. tht name Kinist, n mto ns ·cree' In the Saulteaux language ·and wa s gwtn to Kinist,n because of his abili tf to speolc the Cree long ua9e.· There's also a Kimstino, Sasliotchewon, near Melfort, 111here HerbJ amieson (11 61) once served os a minister Thert's evtn a suggestion that the ·o· ot the end of the name was due to a clerical error somewhere along the Hnel Acc11rd1ng to Da~,d Ptntland of the Un,msily of Man,toba, Kin1111n w was the name of a Cree sub-group, and the word could mean "person from the fast-winds place.· He suggest.1 that it ·was borrowed bv Ojibwa speakers in the form ginishtinoo,· and ,n Old Ojibwa It was ·kirishtmoo·, which ·was borrowed try the French and later shortened to Cris· and becamt the source of the English ·cree • Another explanation is rhat kini~tinaw means ·we are three· in Cree. which could be a rtfm nce to the Trinitr and the Chrrstlan churches on this street Tile rvidtnce all paints ta Kin iitina Avt. being named after the Crtt people in some way It's 1mpassiblr to know what those who namtd the avenue wert thinking at th e timr,

ina1Booklet_v9.indd 16 2016-11-07 10:( The original name for 97 treet i Namayo Avenue ama o i the Cree word for "sturgeon.'' 97 treel is the road to the town of amao.'

Sources· 1 Mccauley Tlltn od Now: AWilt Tllrougll Oar of Edmoaton's First Neighbo11rboo4s. Garv Gomson 011d SotG COV1N11torolis, c,r, or Emnonton1Mcca111e, Rnitelaotion, 201).

ina1Booklet_v9.indd 17 2016-11-07 10:( Th alive Pastoral C',entre was not actually in Mc.-COuley. ll wa. located at 109 Street and 105 Av nue, near th . old Ratholc. l lowevor, before Sacred Heart Church or the First Peoples. Indigenous Peoples in Edmonton (for whom it was illegal to practice their t.mditionaJ spirituality until 1951) congregated at the Native Pastoral Centro.

ln 1980. Luci nne Cote 1ook wa l he first diroc lo1· of l he N11tiw Pastoral Centre and part of a gl'Qup of individuals in.eluding "Connie Morin, Eva Ladoceur, Dan Shonk, Yvonne Shank. Florence Krogul, Lillian Mc.Cu Ila. Freda Turcotte. and Ch ristina Daniel . '

In 1984, the Pastoral Centre rented the warehouse at 109 Stref'.t and 105 Avenue, which was o~ ned by Th Brick. One ofthe group·s c;oncems was baptism; therefore, monthly ma ses were arranged nt tho Sacrod Heert School Gymnasium by Father Gauthier. The cltorts of the individuals that formed the Nat i\'o Pastoral C'..entre eventually Ind to the design.al ion of lhe Sacrnd Hoort Church of the First Peoples.

Lucienne (1940-1998} moved with her husband William M ek to Edmonton i.11 1977 from Anishnabe territory in Tcnnga mi , Ontario. She studied theology at Nm man Theology College in Edmonton following iu thL2 footsteps of h r grand fat her, Alex Paul. w ho taught her about the lndi~en us and Christi an belief ·. and who perfo rmed at wnkl s. funorals and baptisms iu the colDilllmity ofTenaganu. Buforn she became llw cxec: ut ive dirodor of the alive Pastoral [',entl'{'., he wa a nursi'ng as istallt at the Roy I Ale. nder Ho!!pital for nine years and sh . workud at the Boyle Stroot McCaulny Heall b Cent re ,m d at the George Spady Detox Contra.

Sourcts: 1."Native Pastoral Ctntrt nn ds a horne at Sa cred Heart,· Boyle McCau ley News. Vof.s, No B. Oct/No v, 1991. 2. "Chri.stionit~ and Indian spirituafitV comin gtogeth er: Windspeahr. V41.8. Issue · 2. 1g90, pg. 16. 1a

ina1Booklet_v9.indd 18 2016-11-07 10:1 "ln the native communih•, faith runs as deep as the pain of life."

Of Gothic design, the Sacred Heart Church. with its two 1owt1rs (the tallest at 130 feut) 0lubrated its first ma s \ ilh Rev M. Pilon on Christmas Day 1913. ln 1966. the church \~ s damaged b fl.re "'hile renovations m 1967 altered thl! churcb to its present condition.

In the 90s. church attendance had dropped and decisions from the Archdiocese to staff the church w itb Oblate priests to work with the inner city Indigenous population bolstered attendance. and for some time the church was shared. [J

inalBookleLv9.indd 19 2016·11·07 10;( Sacred Heart Parish was designat d a Nat iv Catholi 1,1:mlr in 1991 wh k h then be1 anw '' the r:ountry' fir I Catholic church outside a reserve (or Melis settlement) to be designated a natl e parish · tho Sacred Heart Church of the First People. · in Oc:tober 1995.• This designation ended more than 10. ears of Ind lg nou Peoples m Edmonton meeting in school clas room and make hift pl ce ofwor hip.

The . ervic incorporates local Indigenous languages of Cree, Nakada, Dena, and Chipewyan in the prayer and hymns: Indigenous ymbols of the sacred circle which designates all in the circl as aqual ·: the medicine wheel and four directions as a guide for living a balanced life; the eagle as a s mbol of vision, lr1mgth and courage; and the eagle feather as a ymbol of stability and ha lance. Additionally. the four medicines like w t grass, sage, c .dar, and fungus ar u ed as incense. and cultural itenis like the pipe i honoured and the drum i u ed to invoke the ancestor . The Station of the Cross that adorn the walls oi the c: hurch ware paint .d by Sheldon Meek, and in the additional churoh murul ho was joined by arti ·t Barbara Marquis. ·

Eldtr Eva ladocwr is now 94 ytars of age and mides in bordering Boylt Strttt neighbourhood in Renaissance Place for Mtt,s res1 dtnts . Sht was borp to Louisa and Modtstt Ladoctur, 11 trapping and fishing familv from Fort Clupewyan. Albtrta. She was mamed and hod fi ve chi ldren, and worked as a housekeeper for Governors Centrals Front lynch Staunton (1979-85) and Ro lph Sttinhauer (1974-79). She rtmtmbtrs movrng ro Edm onton when sht was 22 years old

Eva soys the opening prayer every Sunday at the Sacred Heart Church of tht First Peoples, and was the Cret hymns choir instructor prior to this. a position sht held for 21 years at lac. Ste An ne Pilgrimage, as we ll as at tht Nat ive Pastoral Centre_

Eva was also ant of the nrsr peo ple to translatt tht Canodran anthem from English to Cree in 1979

Sources: 1. ·faith runs de ep mFath er }rm s rnner- uty pam.n, Don Retson, fdmontonJournol 2 ·1, Brief ifotory ofSacrtd ffrarl Parish· Edmonron City Archives 3 ·cru hVmn~ and swm grass. Healhrr H"lf, Edmon on Journal , Aprrl 7, 1996. 4 /~id 5 lbrd

ina1Booklet_v9.indd 20 2016-11-07 10:( In 1907 the Catholic Mutual Benefit Assoc1ation building housed the beginnings oflhe Sacred Heart S hoot. Its first permanent structUre was built in 1908 when the enrollment was 200 students. Throughout the vears, as the student population grew, so too did the additions to the school until 1913 when it boasted twelve classrooms. By 1917, St Josephat's school operated by the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate joined the Sacred Heart A new Sacred Heart School was bµilt in 1962 and the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate taught at the school until 1971.

The school closed operations in 2003 and now houses the Department of Leaming Services - Enhancement along with Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) - The Sacred Heart Foundations Program which offers language and literacy to Canadian newcomers.

Sourer -s«ml HlartScbool EdmontDn Cmhoric Sdlaol DIStllCtArdwrs, 10425-84 AW1tfle Edmoflton

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inalBooklet_\19.indd 21 2016·11·07 10:( McCauley hus had u long history of social justice. This mav be because of the n umber of churches in the neighbourhood and/ or be ausc it situated in the heart of tho city nd steps a 11ay from tho railway tat ion. Edmonton' Canadian alive Friendship Centre also used lo be localed in orwood. near McCauley FriPnd hi .untrn ,, l!l'tl a first in :\lbct ta, .stablish~d in l ill tu h Ip sorvP the needs of First Nation peoplo. mo\'ing from rual arr.us to urban intro .

Immigration Hnll lU534-100 Street [1930 Alberta H ritag • site) also wclcomfl d and offr.red ·crvice. lo immigrants lo the cit ·. T e lmmigrutio 11 Hall wa lak n uv r b_· Hope 1ission who e early food prog1a m l~volv11d into program offering addic.t ion I abu.e counsel ing. w m n's progr.irns andslwlters. Thi impul e for social justice was taken up b_ settfod immigrants such a Fra nk and Ri nu pinelli and oth r community member . Toc.lav. Ll w ndghbourhood somoliml's ho. ts marches by anti-puvorty, and anti•ra .i ml groups. Mo I recently, kCaule) ha been a n ighbourhood which hnld marches organized around Idle No More and Murder d and 1.i singlndigenou Women. Th annual Memorial March for Mi sing aud iurdcred Women in Edmonton i · h Id \'Cl year rm F ibrnar: 14, starting 1111d finishing al am d I !earl Chun·! . The hnal hearings of h1• 2014 Truth and Re on .iliation Com mi si n, at the Sha \' Conferenc:c C ntre, is · location near McCauh.Jr.

lt1 reconl ~·ears. the Ben Calf Rob1• Annual Traditional Pow Wow ha taken place in the Commonwealth Recrealion Centre, whi b i located in Mt.Caul<>;. C'J1icf Ben CHIf Rnbe wa a Bhick foot Elder and a residential ·cho I urvivor. He spent hi life 22 advocating for hi people' r ight to an education.

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