Father Lacombe was one of them.

The part he played in the life of Western Canada will be written some day by one who understands how such men, celibate, and dedicated to religious life, may play a stupendous part in the development of civilization.

Something of him is to be found in my description of Monseigneur Fabre.
NOTE This book was begun in 1911 and finished in 1913, a year before war broke out.

It was published serially in the year 1915 and the beginning of 1916.

It must, therefore, go to the public on the basis of its merits alone, and as a picture of the peace-life of the great North West.
PRELUDE Harvest-time was almost come, and the great new land was resting under coverlets of gold.