at tho and of lot umber 2, near the bay, by the lake, and where most of the barges coming from the lakommoored.

3. Guillaume (William) Sayer, had begun the winter “with Pierre Chartrand, and when the latter left to build a. house on the shore of the lake, he was left alone in the house. The M’étis called him "Dion". He also took care of the missionary, bringing him his food, until Father Gascon left for St. Norbert. It is: this Guillaume Sayer, who was arrested in 18149, for having traded furs with the Indians, in spite of the Hudson Bay monopoly. Ho was set free, when 3000 armed Métis surrounded the house where the Coufi: of Inquiry was being held.

1;. Jean~Baptiste Lavallée livecl a. mile-manawhalf to the north. Jean—Baptiste was Michel Lavallée’s father. Today (1935) he is 86 years old. His house was on a little hillock on lot 8, "between the house of Michel Chartrand, who lives with Octave Chartrand, and. the Winnipe-g—Lundar road.

Besides the families mentioned above, there was no one else living close to the chapel, when it was built. ’Ihe closest residents were gram-led fiogethe? around the Hudson Bay Post at Oak Point.

WHY BUILD g CHAPEL FOR 80 FEW PEOPLE?

It is always difficult to find reasons for certain acts, when they have not “been noted, or when the yeople concerned are not living any more. However, on due consideration, it may he surmised that the following facts had something ”co fio with it.

The site of the Pangaan-fihartranflusmrer homes was a. strategic point for the Métis and the Saulteaux from the north of the lake, who came and went on the prairie. These peogle spent the winter in the forests and marshes of the north, hunting and trapping.

In the spring, they came down the lake, on huge barges, with oars and a. sail, headed first for Fort Garry, and than for the buffalo hunts on the plains. They came with their large families, their ponies and carts and all their chattels. Often they landed on

the Sanfly beach, facing the ruins of what was supposed to be the hotel of the Manitoba Beach Company, but most of the time they came in to a. beautiful bigot, which was a. sure shelter for their craft. It is this bight that was supposed to be asepened later on, and made into a gort.

From there to the homes of Pangman and Sayer, there was only about % mile. So, the travellers pitched their buffalouhide tents at this point, and in “the evening, and sometimes in the day time also, they wandered into the little village to chat. They were not in a hurry, having nothing to do but talk, smoke and sleep.

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