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a "XJniveraity Hlxteusion" for tbo orgaaiiation o{ LiUoo(!t,]iieaniiig"wiIdouion", thcuaioeby whkb lectures by the university profcsson tluougliout the they are commonly koowii, is properly the name of maDufacturing centres in the vicinitv of LilJc. In one of their former settlements ncnr Pcmberton, and 1898 the univeisity organised higher education for the is also a tipeciol designation of the lower division. Catholic eirla of Lille. In April, 1907, the Conseil They have no name for themselves as a tribe, but an G&i&sl du Nord suggested the suppression by the known aa Stlatlimuq to the neighbouring Shuswap State of the freedom of higher education and insisted and Thompson Indians, whom they closely resemble. Upon ordinaaecB preventing physicians coming from Although it is known that the Lillooet and adjacent tneCatholic facultvof Liite from attending paupers in tribes bad obtained some knowlcMlge of the Catholic the lWpart«meat aa Nord at the expense of the Stat«. religion aa early at least as 1810 from the Canadian Before the creation of district universities by the employees of the North-West Fur Company, the bo- French Government, the Catholic University of Lille ginning of civilization and Christianity in the tribe presented the first example of these institutions. As properly dateit from the advent of Father Modeete early aa 1886, M. Lavisse, a professor at the Sorbonne, Demers, who canie out from Quebec in 1837, in com- spoke in high terms of this unpressive group of facul- pany with Father Norbert Blanchet, and after several ties, saying that in centralized France it was a dis- yearsof workintheColumbiaregion, inl812ascended tinguished Honour to the University of Lille to have the Frascr Bivcr to Stuart l^ke, preaching and bap* been incorporated in Flanders. The faculties of tizinp among all the tribes on the way. In 1845 the higher education which the State controlled at Douai Jesuit Father John Nobili went over nearly the same were transferred to Lille in 1888 and raised, six years ground on his way to the more northern I)Sn6 tribes. later, to the rank of a state university. Mgr Baunard In 1 847 the first Ublate missionaries in the Columbia resigned the rectorship of the Catholic University in region arrived at Fort Wallawalla, Washington, and in Oct., 1908, and was succeeded by Mgr Margerin, who 1861 Father Charles Grandidier of that order was

bad disting^uidied himseif in 1888 at Foumics by preaching to the Lillooet. In the some year the Ob-

plaeing himself between the workmen and the fire of late mission of Saint Mary's was established on Froser

the soldierB. Among the noteworthy works of art River, thirty-five miles above New Westminster, and

possessed by the city of Lille is a wax head, preserved became the centre of mission work for the whole lower

m the museum, purchased in Italy by Wicar during Fraser country. In 1863 the industrial school was

the Revolution; it is ascribed by tliis connoisseur to added. The entire tribe of the Lillooet is now offi-

Raphael; Alexandre Dumas the younger attributed it ctally reported asCatlioUc, with the exception of about

to Leonardo da Vinci: Henry Thode claims that it twenty individuals attached to the Anglican form,

was an antique modelled after the head of a younz Twelve villaxcs have churches, while a number of

Roman girl whose remains were found in 1485; M. children are being educated at St. Mary's mission,

Frans WickhoS, on the other hand, is inclined to re- under charge of the Oblate Fathers and the Sisters of

Srd it as the work of one of the pupils of Victor of Saint Anne.

rtona (end of the seventeenth century or the be- For all that concerns the primitive condition of the

ginning or the eighteenth), and iaof opioion that it is Lillooet our best authority is Tcit. In habit and cere-

the head of a virgin and martyr. monial they closely resembled the cognate Okanagan,

Vis IIenoe, Hi'atoi're lU LilU dr eto h jsoi (LiBe, 1876); ShuBwap, and Thompson Indians, and a description of

f^^ yf!.^"HiJ^.^?1'XT^ T Wl/" wS;.iH",i t^" 0"e will answer fairly well for the others. They

iSl!ti^T8St?0'Lt^i«oiTl^;?fff^1j'jf=S(l"r^ lived hy fishing, hunting, and the gathering of wilS

Oft (uDa. 183S); HAirrciKira. Ooeuniimli lUuraitratt tl n/rm- roots and berries. Salmon fishing was their most im-

JMigiMidi f'ArfiH "IMnofe -It S.Pirrrt rf. LiUt lUlle, 1895); portant industn-, the fish being taken by spearing, by

ra^f?S!?r89S- '1"?.'^ ^iiSlrl'Jh^iJi;^ iH: Uk and Hn*, iy nets and bylveirs, at -favourite fish".

^/tapOn .1. Pitrre dt Lille (3 vob.. li\le, ISOfi-OO); LEHRiDUf, ing stations, and dried in the Hun or by smoking.

LaCAaMl>ri> di WWilllft lSB7i; LefEbvre, lyEj^dtiFmu Their Ordinary hunting implement was a highly doco-

l'*^l5^i''E^'*F;^fi"l^^::;t^d^'iX' ow;withsinew,£rd,andant,wstfppilwith

BiUHABD yin^-eiaa ann^fi ri< iwtoraf d bc,.r, h..id., th. n„,c

IBOl. ' ' ' its ouills. Traps, nooses, pitfalls, and deodfallB were

Geohoes Goyau. used. Dogs were carefully trained for hunting, and

lJlliB.THO»iAgF. g€»LBAVBNWon™,DiocE8EO*. were also a tavourito fowl article A great vanotv of

' *'•"— ~'"- "*-' I "^"^ " roots was gathered, some of which were roasted m

EdUooet Indiana, an important tribe of Salishan pits in the ground after the manner of camas. Ber-

linguistic stock, in fMuthem British Cohunbia, for- ries, particularly service berries, were dried in targe

merlv holding a mountainous territory of about one quantities, pressed into cakes, and used at home or

hunoredmileBinlengthfromnorth to south, including traded to other tribes. Provisions were stored in

the river and lake of the same name, with Bridge cellars for winter supply or sale.

River,Andetson,andSctonLake8,andapartof Harri~ The winter house was sometimes a double-lined son lake, and extending on the north-east to beyond mat lodge, but more usually a semi-suliterranean Fraser River, They are now settled upon rescrva- roundBtructure,fromeight4?cntofifty foctindiamcter, tiona within the same territory, attached to Williams of logs lined with bark an<l co\'ered with earth. En- I^ke and Fraser River agencies. They have several trance was by a ladder through a hole in the roof, the bands grouped in two mam divisions distinguished by projecting ends of the ladder and of the house posts slight dialectic differences, and commonly known being carved and painted with figures of the clan respectively as Upper (Williams Lake agency) and totem, in the style of the tot-em poles of the coast Lower (Fraser River agency). Their principal settle- tribes. The ordinary summer dwelling was a reetan- ments are Fountain and Bridge River, of the Upper eular communal Etrurturc of li^ framework and cedar band; and Pemberton, and Skookumchuck, of the boards.withharkroof, from thirty-rivetoseventy-fivo Ltnrar band. Prom a population of perhaps four feet in length, with fire-places range<l along the centre thousand souls a century ajijo they are now reduced by to accommodate from four to eight families. The disease and former dissipation after the advent of the bed platform was next the wall. The furnishing con- whites to about 1230, the most notable destruction sisted chiefly of baskets, bags, and mats. They were having been the result of a amall-pox visitaticn which expert buket weavers, and liasket making is still a ■wept all the tribes of the Fraser River country in principal industry in the tribe. Large closely-wovea 1882. baskets were used for holding water in wbica to boil