Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 15: At North Bend, BC
A sight that would’ve been familiar to many readers of the “Chinook Paper” was this frontier scene…
It’s the “Roman Catholic Chapel at North Bend, dedicated October 9, 1889”.
A familiar sight, in part because North Bend had many inhabitants who wrote & read Chinuk Pipa.
Kamloops Wawa #126 (March 1895), page 35
But also, it looks like this shot was taken during a festival, one of the sporadic events where Native people came from far and wide and camped out for several days of preaching.
In Chinook Jargon, of course, as well as some approximation of Salish by the newcomer priests.
