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would be good to have an additional chapter on your
admirable writings. I am pleased to see that the
English so well appreciate the missionary work of a
Catholic Frenchman, but hope that we shall have
something more complete about him.”

Quebec, Battleford, and New Westminster, that
means that the East, the Centre and the West,
practically the whole of Canada, is represented in the
expression of thisdesideratum. On the occasion of the
golden jubilee’ of a man who has deserved well of this
country, we have deemed it advisable to comply with
this request of Canadians and others who know a little,
but want to know more, of his work in the West.

There is another consideration which prompted
the publication of the present volume. Father
Morice’s first book, Au Pays de l’'Ours Noir, related
his missionary experiences down to 1896. But much
of his multifarious work, his arduous explorations, his
writing and lecturing, is posterior to that date, and it
has always been his intention to give, in a counterpart
volume, some of the anecdotes and adventures conse-
quent on his later missionary and exploratory journeys.
Most of these have been embodied in the present
Memoirs. It will save him the trouble of writing the
contemplated book, and, we fondly hope, will pro-
portionately enhance the interest of ours.

These, his Memoirs, are appropriately termed
“abridged.”” Very much more might have been
written of his career; but he is himself averse to having
a pretentious volume thereon. Such as it is, we hope
this will do no harm to the reader; at the same time,
it may suffice to give the subject of the following
pages the meed of justice to which he is entitled.

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‘July 26th, 1930, 50th anniversary of Father Morice’s arrival in
Western Canada.