The Beginning of St. Albert

St. Albert, also known as Big Lake, became the new location of an Oblate mission because of it's promise of a good future in agriculture. Many Metis and Indian people began attending the chapel that was build there and many Metis moved into log houses that were built at the bottom of the hill. The Metis adapted a new lifestyle of farming instead of the traditional way of life that was, hunting. The Metis had a hard time becoming new farmers and lived off pemmican, dried meat, wild berries and sometimes bannock.