Batoche Once More

 
FTLComm - Batoche - Wednesday, June 25, 2003
 
In September of 1999 we first visited this place and visited only the army encampment and the site of the Caron farm. It was a moving experience, walked on the ground seeing the river and sky and knowing that this place is what the Metis called their home and fought to keep the land from being taken away from them by the government in Ottawa who needed to show Quebec that they meant business and the Metis were the demonstration material.
 
For two decades or more Kelliher school has sent a class off to Fort Carlton each June then paid a visit to the historial park at Batoche and it was our luck to be invited to join them and document their experience.
 




Tuesday's battle formation sky

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Kelliher student after lunch

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Nation Historical Park

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This is a big park

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The Show

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Kelliher's students

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MIddleton

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Museum Display

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The Four Day War

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Magnificent display

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Weapons

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Middleton's forces

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Metis Fortification

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Reverse view of gun pit

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Artillery

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Dumont's Allies

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Museum looking West

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Dramatic Hallway

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Kelliher Students lap it up

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Gabriel Dumont's gun

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Bad day for boating

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Mission Hill

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Weapons

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Off to the church

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Ancient site

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Lot 52

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The Church

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Nineteenth Century

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From in front of the church

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Play at the rectory

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Inside the Church

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Stations and lamps

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Icons of faith and devotion

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Peace and Love on a battlefield

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Light fingered soldiers

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The river of life

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Simple beauty

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Ox Cart

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The rectory

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Hinge

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Games table

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Rectory guide

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The rector's room

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Artifacts

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Dining table

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Household

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The basics

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The Kitchen

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Post office

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Library

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Slates

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Vestments

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Chapel

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From the rectory

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East Village

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Lot 52 behind us

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Long Lots

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Those who died

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Odd lay out

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Traditions

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Massed grave

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1959 Tragedy

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Gabriel Dumont

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Army fox holes

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One soldier's grave

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Caron farm

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Inside the Caron house

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Inside the Caron house

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Zareba

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History is vital to our understanding of ourselves, our culture and the political choices we have as responsible citizens in a democratic society. We usually do our historical study from library, research materials and of course, the Internet. But doing it first hand, being on the site, walking across the same places where an important even took place is added directly to your own personal life experience. For me living an afternoon at Batoche with the grade eight and nines from Kelliher gave me both perspective and immediate appreciation not just for what happened but for what this knowledge has done to each of us and how we will act and think differently because of what we learned and felt on the Batoche site.
         

     

Timothy W. Shire

  Editor's note: The pictures on this page are the work of both Timothy and Judy Shire using three different digital cameras.  

 

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Editor : Timothy W. Shire
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