"Lucy Margaret Baker: A Memoir (1920)"
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| Database ID | 27396 | |
| Institution | Saskatchewan Archives Board | |
| Fonds/Collection | Lucy Margaret Baker fonds | |
| File/Item Reference | F-375-4 | |
| Date of creation | 1920 | |
| Physical description/extent | one folder; 3 mm of textual records | |
| Number of images | 38 | |
| Historical note | This fonds includes records created and collected by Lucy Margaret Baker, the first missionary from the Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, served Aboriginal people in the Prince Albert area starting in 1878. Baker taught at mission schools in the Prince Albert area in the 1870s and 1880s. Baker and her friend and assistant, Annie (nee Cameron) Kirkby, were also missionaries and teachers at a mission school at a Sioux reserve called Makoce Waste ("the good land") in the late 1890s and into the early years of the new century. Records of Lucy M. Baker include: correspondence, speeches, reminiscences, mission school reports for Makoce Waste reserve, 1897-1902, photographs, clippings, a diary, a published memoir of Lucy M. Baker, contracts and receipts for mission buildings and fire wood. The fonds also includes records about Lucy M. Baker, by identified and unidentified authors. | |
| Scope and content | This file contains an original copy of Lucy Margaret Baker: A Memoir, compiled by Elizabeth A. Byers and published by Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1920. It discusses her work with the Cree near Prince Albert, Sask. (Mistawasis Reserve), her teaching at Nisbet Academy, her work during North-West Rebellion, and her efforts to help an "outcast band of Sioux." She helped this band get their reserve called Makoce Waste, later known as Wapeton. | |
| Restrictions on access | There are no restrictions on access. | |
| Type | Archival | |
| Primary Media | Textual documents | |
| Specific document types | Books | |
| Provenance Access Point | Baker, Lucy Margaret 1836-1909 | |
| Place | Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada Mistawasis First Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| Treaty boundaries | Treaty 6 | |
| Cultural region | Subarctic | |
| Names | Baker, Lucy M. Byers, Elizabeth A. | |
| Subject | Missions and Missionaries Religion -- Christianity Northwest Resistance Reserves -- formation of Churches -- Presbyterian People -- Portraits | |
| Date Range(s) | 1920-1929 | |
| Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/27396
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