Anne Mission, and subsequently of St.Albert, the first house in which he helped to build; and from these Missions he visited numbers of outlying regions, including Lesser Slave Lake.

His principal missionary work, however, for twenty years was pursued amongst the Blackfeet Indians on the Great Plains, during which he witnessed many a perilous onslaught in the constant warfare between them and their traditional enemies, the Crees.

Being now over eighty years of age, he has retired from active duty, and is spending the remainder of his days at Pincher Creek, Alta., where, it is understood, he is preparing his memoirs for publication at an early date.] Not associated with the Commission, but travelling with it as a guest, was the Right Rev.E.Grouard, O.M.I., the Roman Catholic Bishop of Athabasca and Mackenzie rivers, who was returning, after a visit to the East, to his headquarters at Fort Chipewyan, where his influence and knowledge of the language, it was believed, would be of great service when the treaty came under consideration there.

The secretaries of the Commission were Mr.Harrison Young, a son-in-law of the Rev.George McDougall, the distinguished missionary who perished so unaccountably on the plains in the winter of 1876, and Mr.I.W.Martin, an agreeable young gentleman from Goderich, Ont.

Connected with the party in an advisory capacity, like Father Lacombe, and as interpreter, was Mr.Pierre d'Eschambault, who had been for over thirty years an officer in the Hudson's Pay Company's service.