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DUNDAS, Manager MEMORIAL SERVIGES FOR VGTIMS OF 1916 FRE Name of Nushka Changed to Val Gagne in Honour of Heroic Priest. Great Gathering Of District, July 29th. On Thursday last there was a great cathering of priests and people from all over the North Land to do honour to the sacred memory of Rev. Father Gagne and to pay tribute of rememâ€" brance and affection to the others who had died in the great fire of 1916. There were many hundreds there at V al Gagne for the impressive services, There were visitors from Timmins, Iroquois Falls, Cochrane, Cobalt, New Liskeard, Hairleybury, and from pracâ€" tically every other centre in this North Land. The services were held in the open air. In a large open field a beautiful altar had been erected with a noble backfround of the North Land‘s own evergreens. Before this pastoral altar Rev. Father Lagreval, of Charlton, celebrated requiem high mass for the repose of the souls of those dying in the 1916 fire. Rev. Father Beaureâ€" gard, of Timmins, who had known Father Gagne at college, was deacon, and Rev. Fr. Langlais, of Barraute, who had been a companion at the Seminary at Montreal, acted as subâ€" deacon. After Mass a procession was formed and the large congregation pro Laroeque, â€" of Cochrane, the large eathering kneeling throughout this part of the inpressive ceremony. The monument to Rev. Fr. Gagne, is a plain gtone of grey granite, surâ€" mounted by a eross. :On the simple but impressive shaft appear the insâ€" eriptions:â€"In â€" Latinâ€"‘*‘The _ Good. Shepherd gives his life for the sheep: St. John X: 11.‘‘ In Frenchâ€"**‘‘fo the memory of Father Wilfrid Gagne, parish priest of this parish, a vietim of his devotion in the great conflagraâ€" tion of July 29, 1916. The Clergy (){'i 1 1 The monument is ereci ed in the cemetery on the hill behind the little village. Rev. Father Gagne was born at Nicolet, Quebec, and at the time of his death he was only about 27 years of age. He spent the greater part of his life at Manchester, New Hampshire, and came from that city to labour in the priesthood of his church in Canada. For a short time he was assistant priest at La Tuque and at St. Bruno de Guigues, from the latter placd gomg to what was then the village of Nusihka, a thriving little village, the centre of a growing agricultural settiement. He had only been at Nushka a few weeks when the disastrous fire scourged the district. He was returning from the annual retreat of the priests of the dioeese at North Cobalt, and train officials and passengers ‘begged him to remain on the train as Nushka was then in serious danger. **‘My dut} lies with my people, whatever ma, had served at Guigues, addressed the assembly in French. The monument to Rev. Fr. Gagne was blessed, this ceremony being directed by Rev. Fr. C rain as ~Nushka was danger. **My duty ople, whatever may reply of Rev. Father e priests of the »bait, andâ€" train rs ‘begeged him to l ed fabricators. planes? Humph | Indians are too !\\.lh(' nen _:_;'ui'}‘,l' bothered ~by an Why we are not maclhine, an Inge automobile. â€" Th $ i $ il.lltl nl nn‘s(' 11 stified by mac h(i' rows and pl now ourselves. papers should qu and their reader: City newspap all about the In:« just as they kno the North, sout! < § us § © | 0 0 i rube who wears and hayseeds it gold bucks and : ‘*Be Gum!‘‘ Th city newspapers as the farmer d busy â€" motoring opera to take tit The Indians get canoes and laur jorv grand opera ‘*eanned vrand CON [t elothes m tR n YÂ¥ dozen â€"are *) sitk f help been and f1 and fHlames, In his inspiring address on Thursâ€" day Rev. Father Gorman, of Cobalt, paid eloquent tribute. to Rev. Father Gagne. ‘*"Greater love hath no man than this,"‘ he «juoted, ""that he lay down his life for his friends.‘""‘ Rev. Father Gagne had set a wonderful exâ€" ample of earnest and noble service for this day and generation that thought too selfishly and followed too often wrong ideals and ignoble aims. Rev. Father Mountlet in words of thrilling eloquence also pointed ‘the lesson of the noble Jlife and the glorious death of Rev. Father Gagne who had stood so well the tests of highest Christian valor and unselfish of lus fellows. Gagne, as he left Train No. 47 at Nush ka Station. He went in among his flock and in the hours of trial and death he was a good ministering spirit earrying hope and consolation and rendering assistance to those who were in the shadow of death from the burning bush. Many perished in the fire of 1916, and Nushka was one of the districts suffering most seriously from the disastrous fire. In the Nushâ€" ka district there was much mourning and much sorrow, and none were more deeply â€" grieved~ than Rev. â€" Father Gazne who had so nobly gixen in the simple doing of his duty as he saw it. â€" His dead ‘body, badly burned, was recovered some days after the fire had passed in the basement of Laâ€" londe‘s store at Nushka where he had apparantly gone in his work of reseue help and merey, and where he had been overeome at last hy the smoke The services on Thursday impressed all with their beauty and solemnity. From passing trains crowds watched the greater crowds at the ceremomies at V al Gaone. Many strangers were tempt some | were Llor Te day and was done for the all who attended. maste In honour of rv and death t lay was one The village \ accomplished and what. their lives would inspire in the way of further progress and advancement. There were parties all day visiting the various parts of the district and viewing the agric that was evident. LO! THE POOR INDIAN IS / UPâ€"TOâ€"DATE EVEN TO SLANG. Toronto and other outside newsâ€" papers have been featuring a stuf'\' to the effect that the Indians of the. far north of Ontario aml (»t \mth\vestern Quebec, lying north of ‘ Lake‘ Abitibi and the ‘Transe untnumml, have been awestruck and. terrorâ€"stricken by a giant hydroplane in the service of the Abitibi Power Paper Co. **You can tell the worid,: ans informs The A paleface newspapet ed fabricators. U3 and their readers. ° City newspapers, af course, know all about the Indians of the North,â€" just as they know that the farmer of the North, south, east and west is a rube who wears whiskers on his face and hayseeds in his hair, and buys gold bucks and says ** By Heck‘"‘ and ©‘Be Gum!‘‘ The Indians reading the city newspapers laugh over it all, just as the farmer does, unless he is too busy motoring or taking in grand opera to take time to read the papers. The Indians get their motor rides in canoves ind launches, while they enâ€" jor grand opera on the zramophone, ‘*eanned vrand opera‘‘ they ealled it. en ( n the il Gagne. Many strangers were ted to join the gathering, and who found it possible did so and clad indeed that they did. The red any N we are not atra ine. an deatin langed to â€"General LC was | davy and othes make the woman how lozen are there in a yard of are quit H um CONUNDRUM 1 phonograp Cather Gagne‘s muust name of Nushka has V al Gagne, the Postâ€" iuthorizing this chanâ€" f the post office, and also expressing their «in the name of the nor dre we alarmed or chinerv. We use wheel x to e remembered. eautifully decorated everything possible e araqccommodation of all day visiting the district and ral development one of 1 ance, c bllldL bIlC ire blackâ€"heartâ€" fraid of hydroâ€" ning doing! The to seeing fhe ns are IPrC Timmins Branch, The value of a Safety Deposit Box is in the protecâ€" tion it affords. Once your important papers, jewelry or other valuâ€" ables are deposited in one of these boxesâ€"they are safe from fire, theft or accident. Don‘t run unnecessary risks. a moderate sum you can rent a Safety Deposit Box at any one of our branches. IMPERIAL BANK Branches also at Kirkland Lake, South Porcupine, New Liskeard and Matheson. H. C. McDonald, Manager.