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1904 -- Procession of Roman Catholic clergy, Indian people and brass bands leaving twin towered Our Lady of the Rosary Church on its way to the blessing of St. Augustine's Indian residential school by Bishop Augustine Dontenwill. The domed building behind the twin towered church was the second Indian church, S.S. Redempteur or Church of the Most Holy Redeemer built in 1872 and blessed in 1873. It was probably used as the catechism house after Our Lady of the Rosary was built and certainly as a meeting hall for the Band. It burned down in 1934.

Photograph by Philip Timms. Image No. 91726 (F-2406) courtesy the Royal B.C. Museum, B.C. Archives