College brass band playing behind the rectory and cathedral for St. Jean Baptiste day in Gravelbourg.

Parade on a residential street in Gravelbourg. A marching brass band led by a man on a horse, a float made to look like a ship and men marching. ca. 1915-1920.

The Collège Mathieu band, group on stage for a concert to Bishop Joseph Guy. Names given.

Large marching band on parade beside school, 1938-1939; brass band on stage at Collége Mathieu; the band in front of the school, 1935-1936. Gravelbourg

Selected images relating to the history of Western Canada known as the Western Canada Pictorial Index, compiled by the Western Canada Pictorial Index Inc., an independent, non-profit organization in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Includes an accompanying booklet published in 1979, contact sheets of images and computer print-offs with descriptions. The images are copies of originals taken mainly by the Oblate Fathers showing scenes, people, activities, etc. in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario.

R-B10262 (1)-(31): includes Chief of Catholic Assiniboines, Frank Walking Son, and his wife at Assiniboine, Saskatchewan, 1923 (19); Roman Catholic mission at Assiniboine Indian Reserve, 1923 and building built in 1930 (19)-(21); and a church at Balcarres (22).

R-B10263 (1)-(36): includes the Lebret band on parade at Camperville, Manitoba (15); Reverend Carriere, OMI, and P. Cairt Boyer, OMI, in a horse-drawn sleigh at the old chapel at File Hills (34); and Pointed Cap, an Indigenous man of 108 years of age, shovelling snow at File Hills Indian Red Cross in 1915 and sitting on the ground at the File Hills Agency in 1914 (35)-(36).

R-B10264 (1)-(36): Father Georges Jeanotte, OMI, with some people at the church in File Hills (2); studio portrait of Indigenous people at File Hills Agency wearing Army uniforms, traditional dress and suits, 1914-1918? (3); File Hills Agency Indian band in uniform with musical instruments, 1910; a procession of children at File Hills led by R.P. Boyer, OMI and a gathering after the procession, 1916 (5)-(7); Indigenous people in ceremonial dress in front of teepees at File Hills.

R-B10265 (1)-(36): a band playing in parade on a street in Gravelbourg; the playground in front of the school in Gravelbourg; a religious celebration in Gravelbourg in May 1921; two boys dressed as priests in Gravelbourg; convent of Jesus-Marie nuns at Gravelbourg; a boat with a flag and canopy at Lebret; the provincial tuberculosis sanatorium at Saskatoon; the tuberculosis sanatorium at Fort Qu'Appelle in the summer and winter of 1917; the visit of Edward VIII, Prince of Wales to the sanatorium in Fort Qu'Appelle with the Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP) on horseback and buildings in background, September 11, 1917; view of buildings and houses on the hills of Fort Qu'Appelle.

R-B10266 (1)-36): school in Gravelbourg with several automobiles in front of the building; Bank of Hochelaga and Union Bank of Canada in Gravelbourg; Nyal Quality Store in Gravelbourg with a few unidentified people in front of the store; side view of the cathedral in Gravelbourg with Sisters and a group of children in the foreground, 1920; Saskatchewan Creamery Company Ltd. creamery in Gravelbourg; tall grain elevator in Gravelbourg; the presbytery in Gravelbourg, a large frame house with verandahs and balconies; railway station in Gravelbourg with several wagons and people pulled up beside the train; Thevenet College, Gravelbourg; the public school in Gravelbourg in 1910; rear view and front view of the cathedral in Gravelbourg, 1951; interior of the chapel at Jesus-Marie Convent in Gravelbourg with Father Arthur Maquin saying mass; new Catholic Church in Gravelbourg (first church built in 1908); interior of cathedral in Gravelbourg; a truck and wagon at Imperial Oil Service in Gravelbourg; group of students on the steps of the school in Gravelbourg, March 1921; elevated view of children in Gravelbourg in long rows doing exercises with a farm and prairie in the background; exterior of J.E. Beland butcher shop in Gravelbourg; the Lizee Block in Gravelbourg, a brick building with a wooden porch and sidewalk; aerial view of Gravelbourg; Thomas Clement (Tommy) Douglas with clergy in Gravelbourg, 1960; Grey Nuns' Hospital in Gravelbourg; Royal Hotel in Gravelbourg; a Corpus Christi parade in Gravelbourg; Jesus-Marie convent in Gravelbourg in 1926 and on April 14, 1942. .

R-B10267 (1)-36): band on stage at Gravelbourg College, 1941; band outdoors for the Centennial celebrations of the Oblates, 1945; group photograph of band at Gravelbourg College, 1925? and the band marching on a street with automobiles in the background; visit of Mgr. Lemieux outside the Gravelbourg Cathedral with a crowd of people; side view of the cathedral in Gravelbourg, 1920?; interior views of the cathedral in Gravelbourg empty and full of people, October 1937; exterior of Gravelbourg College in 1920 and 1946; group of students on the steps of Gravelbourg College in 1922; aerial view of Gravelbourg College in 1955; view of Gravelbourg seminary in 1945; elevated view of Gravelbourg College students standing on open ground to form the letters C.M. (College Mathieu); group photograph of the Gravelbourg College hockey team with Reverend Arres; general view of Gravelbourg looking north.

R-B10268 (1)-(36): church at Kamsack, 1938; interior of a church in Kamsack, 1949; and exterior of church before tornado in 1944; views of a tornado showing the funnel cloud at 10:00 pm on August 9, 1944 and Kamsack after the tornado, 1944; a group of girls, boys and a priest gathered for a confirmation ceremony in Kamsack in July 1948;

R-B10269 (1)-36): images taken in Ontario and Manitoba.

R-B10270 (1)-(36): images taken in Ontario and Manitoba.

R-B10271 (1)-(36): McDougall's Auto Livery in Lebret with horses and an automobile in front; a family on a farm with two horses and a flock of chickens; a barn on Maple Grove farm near Lebret; two men with some horses; an old stone church at Lestock, 1896; an Indigenous man and two older women sitting outdoors in Lestock with a small house in the background; a large group of children and adults at a confirmation in Lebret; Leonard Creely in an army uniform and M. Pimotal wearing traditional Indigenous dress in Lebret (image taken by Rossie Photo); Indigenous pageant at Lebret, 1925; Lebret hockey team standing outdoors, 1932?; girls from Lebret Indian Industrial School wearing white dresses with flowers in their hair holding a small maypole of flowers; children in a school yard in front of the school in Lebret; houses on St. Mary Street in Lebret, 1905; an Indigenous couple seated outside a dwelling in Lebret; two women seated at a table outdoors for tea with buildings in Lebret in the background; the Indian Industrial School in Lebret, 1905; head and shoulders portrait of Moostatik wearing a feather headdress in Lebret (Rossie Photo); studio portrait of M. Pimotat, brother of Star Blanket, seated, in Lebret (Rossie Photo); decorated teepees at Lebret .

R-B10272 (1)-(36): passengers in sleighs with horses at Lebret on February 25, 1917; Prime Minister of Canada Louis St. Laurent with Clifford Goodwill and Grace Lavallee at the Indian school in Lebret on July 10, 1950; the cricket team at the Lebret Industrial School, 1890; the views of the first church in Lebret, July 1919 and 1926; the Roman Catholic Mission in 1895 and the church in 1884 and the interior of the church in 1941; a band at the Indian School in Lebret wearing uniforms, 1934; a band at Lebret playing for visiting dignitaries; group photograph of a band.

R-B10273 (1)-(36): snow covered hills near Lebret with a small building near the shore of the lake; a locomotive hauling a large wooden structure at Lebret; portrait of Poundmaker in traditional dress, 1885; portrait of Dekepon of Piapot Reserve seated in full dress; a small wooden bridge at Lebret; Indigenous chiefs at Lebret seated on the ground near the lake, 1890; La verendrye parade at Lebret in honour of meeting of Bar Association; group of Indigenous people gathered with canoes at shore, September 1928.

R-B10274 (1)-(36): Dr. Semard, a physician in Lebret, and family sitting in a living room; horse and wagon on road; view of Lebret from hill with lake in the background, 1948; automobiles on road to Lebret; moving a religious statue by boat on the Qu'Appelle, near Lebret, August 22, 1955; girls seated at sewing machines in classrooms at the Lebret Indian School, 1892?; the Qu'Appelle Indian Industrial School at Lebret seen from the corner of garden, August 1895; several residents of Lebret standing in a rowboat, 1911; first train to arrive in Lebret; a Corpus Christi festival in Lebret as people parade on a street; sanctuary at Lebret, 1929?; interior of Sacred Heart sanctuary, 1920 and exterior of the church with crowds of people in front, 1919.

R-B10275 (1)-(36): funeral of a child in Lebret, including funeral procession up the Lebret hill; Indigenous camp with tents in the valley at Lebret; band at Lebret Indian School standing outdoors wearing uniforms; church at Moose Mountain, Carlyle, served by R.P. Gaston Gelinas, OMI; Main Street, St. Mary Street, Commercial Street and Coulee Lane in Lebret; side and interior views of church at Lebret; canoe on Echo Lake in the Qu'Appelle Valley, 1922.

R-B10276 (1)-(36): harvesting grain at Lebret; using a tractor, 1950; threshing operations at a Lebret farm, 1950 and in an unidentified location; barn on farm at Lebret; haying on a farm at Lebret; hauling hay in September 1950; a religious statue at Sacred Heart Church, Lebret, November 1, 1950; a pontifical mass in Sacred Heart Church for the 25th anniversary celebrations in Lebret on October 22, 1952; P.P. Tourigny and A. Fournier greeting a cardinal or bishop in Lebret; a tame deer on the farm of Henri Pealapra with F.C. Edward Magnam, OMI, at Lebret; threshing grain on a farm at St. Louis, Lebret with F. Laurent Gureault, September 1952; plowing a field at the St. Louis farm, July 1951; threshing at St. Louis with R. Chouinard on combine, September 1951.

R-B10277 (1)-(36): pontifical mass and ordination, 1956, deaconship, 1964, and ordination in Lebret Church (1)-(5); snowshoeing and picnic in winter at Lebret (30); an igloo built by seminary students at Lebret in preparation for mission work; three unidentified men on skis at Lebret, December 1951; sailing at Lebret, 1932; various plays performed at Lebret including St. Francis and the Bad Man, 1952, A Babe is Borne, 1951, Le Vieux Wong, 1964, Palastrina, 1937; La Farce des't Bon Saints du Glace, 1953 (6)-(16); a gymnastic display in Lebret, 1943 (27); hockey team at Lebret with Fathers Andre Gousy, Raymond Paulin, Maurice Gautier, Arthur Masse, Jacques Laporte, 1953, hockey team of 1938, and hockey team of 1944, Lebret (28) (29) (32) (35); nuns at work in Lebret (17)-(26).

R-B10278 (1)-(36): wedding party and priest in school house in Marieval; an old model snowmobile in Marieval in winter; the Qu'Appelle steamboat on Last Mountain Lake; the interior of a sewing room in Marieval School, 1926 and the interior of a classroom with children at desks in Marieval, 1926; a boat and people at the shore of Echo Lake.

R-B10279 (1)-(36): images taken in Manitoba.

R-B10280 (1)-(36): images taken in Manitoba.

R-B10281 (1)-(35): the first Sandy Bay Boy Scout troop at Sacred Heart Church; church and rectory at White Star; and church at Standing Buffalo Sioux, Fort Qu'Appelle (17).

R-B10282 (1)-(14): several portraits of Indian chiefs at Fort Qu'Appelle (Howl, Red Dog, Day Walker, Crooked Nose, Star Blanket, Pointed Cap, Buffalo Bow and Mis-ta-tik); and head and shoulders portrait of Chief Poundmaker wearing head adornment (6).