Pembina County ND Archives Biographies.....Belcourt, G. A. 
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Author: Antoine Gerard and Major Woods

BELCOURT, FATHER G. A.

Roman Catholic Missionary at Pembina in 1849, and at St. Joseph in 1856-61. 
By Antoine Girard.

"I will add that Mr. Belcourt is a Catholic Missionary who has resided in that
country for eighteen years, has learned the Indian languages spoken on that
frontier, has traveled over the most of it and is perhaps better acquainted with
the people of that region and their peculiarities, than any other man in the:
country. I found him a polite, educated gentleman, with a self-sacrificing
devotion to his high and holy calling, that cannot but excite admiration in a
professor of Christianity, and respect from the unbeliever and heathen. His wish
for assistance in the publication of his dictionary of the Chippewa language is
worthy of the favorable consideration of a liberal government, which is striving
in such profitless and numerous ways to ameliorate the condition of these
unfortunate people."

From:  Major Woods' Report of His Expedition to Pembina Settlements, 31st
Congress, 1st Session, Ex-Doc. 51.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

COLLECTIONS OF THE State Historical Society OF NORTH DAKOTA
VOL. I

BEING FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA TO THE
GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1906.

BISMARCK, N. D.
TRIBUNE, STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS 
1906


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