Lions Club involvement at Christmas

pg 737 the Lions Club was involved at Christmas in selling Christmas trees

Community Christmas Events Index

pg 739 talks about lions club selling Christmas trees
pg 82/83 Christmas Eve at the St. Albert Cathedral was Celebrated by Both Protestants and Catholics 
pg 19 During his Christmas visit of 1860, Bishop Tache gives his blessing to the establishment of the St. Albert mission. 

pg 77 Experimental Telephone Calls made in 1884 between Christmas and New Year’s
 pg 737  St.Albert Women's Institute involvement in the community at Christmas time

pg 737 St.Albert Women's Institute

They sent out Christmas Hampers each year to those less fortunate see pg 737

Christmas Project Labels

This post gives you a choice of labels, if you have other suggestions check with your teacher before using them so everyone can agree on the label. You can use more than one label.

82/83 Christmas Eve at the St. Albert Cathedral was Celebrated by Both Protestants and Catholics (8)

Click here to see the picture larger (St. Albert Pictorial History pg. 5)

Which Cathedral (Church) was the masses mentioned below celebrated in?

Summary:

Religious observances were central, like attending mass, especially Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, which was also attended by English speaking protestants from Fort Edmonton.   Excerpts from the Edmonton Bulletin  also  mention community highlights.

Excerpts from Black Robe's Vision:







Suggestions for further research and development.

1. Find out which Church has remained as an historical site until now (Dec. 2015)?
2. Find out how and by what route people traveled from Edmonton to St. Albert?
3. Find out what mass was like in the 1880s.
   

Further Exploration & Development:

1. Visit the Father Lacombe Chapel.
2. Work with the Church and Museum to reenact a mass in the 1860s. Video it and put it on this blog.
   
3. Research and write a story about Christmas in St. Albert in the 1800s.
   
4. Evaluate the usefulness of this post for each grade level and make suggestions for for grade level use.

82 , 83 (Links to pages in the Black Robe's Vision)

(4) During his Christmas visit of 1860, Bishop Tache gives his blessing to the establishment of the St. Albert mission. (4)

19 (Link to page) Usefulness Rating (4): There is only mention of the Bishops Christmas visit. ( For more on Christmas 1860 read from bottom of page 77 to top of page 83 ). The context is very useful in finding out the beginnings of the St. Albert mission.

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(3) Experimental Telephone Calls made in 1884 between Christmas and New Year’s

77 (Link to history book page) Usefulness Rating (3): The event happened at Christmas and is interesting but it does not have much information about Christmas celebrations.

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