The birthplace of ice hockey is said to be near a settlement on the western shore of Great Bear Lake, accessible only by winter road. The game helped 50 men survive a brutal winter at this outpost of Sir John Franklin’s Arctic Expedition. In biblical terms, could it be claimed that whoever dropped the puck – …
Those who engage in the service of others often state that in doing so, they receive more than they give. These are certainly the sentiments of 10 Sisters, 4 priests and a bishop, all of whom have ministered among the Indigenous people of Western and Northern Canada and who now live at Trinity Manor, a …
When Anna Pagliuso ‘volunteered’ her husband Bill to join the Finance Committee for Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples in Edmonton, neither of them could have foreseen the vital role that he would have in the future of the parish community. Eighteen months later, the 107-year-old church suffered a devastating fire. On August 30, …