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After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings.
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Defining Métis examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries’changing interests and agendas. Defining Métis sheds light on the earliest phases of Catholic missionary work among Indigenous peoples in western and northern Canada. It examines various interrelated aspects of this work, including the beginnings of residential schooling, transportation and communications, and relations between the Church, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the federal government. While focusing on the Oblat...
Vol. 1 includes a memoir of Dr Draper and the early records of the Society (1849-54)
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
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Includes section "Review of recent geological literature."