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Show Nuns Journey 300 Miles Across Ice. The six devoted Gray Nuns from Montreal left AVinnepeg on January 7 for Prince Albert, whence by horse ! conveyance and dog train they will traverse 300 odd miles to Isle La Crosse mission, in the northern wilds. These nuns will resume their charge conducting school and other mission work, which seven years ago they transferred to the Sisters of St. Joseph at Reason mission, which was conducted con-ducted for forty years and then given up, as there was nothing in that wilderness wil-derness which the sisters could do to su pport themselves. They are now-going now-going back in response to urgings, but are still uncertain how the mission can be maintained. The Sisters of St. Jo-sepr, Jo-sepr, who left last fall, have built a new-school new-school one hundred feet long. To reach their destination the nuns will travel over the snow-clad plain, through heavy bush and over ice-covered rivers, and after the first few nights, being beyond the pale of settlement, they must sleep in the open. |