Editing Rupert's Land (section)

==Religious missions==
Peake (1989) describes people, places, and activities that were involved in 19th-century Anglican missionary activities in the prairie areas of Rupert's Land, that huge portion of Canada controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company and inhabited by few Europeans. Early in the century, fur trade competition forced the company to expand into this interior region, and some officials saw advantages in allowing missionaries to accompany them. Officially they did not discriminate among denominations, but preference was often granted to the [[Anglicanism|Anglicans]] of the Britain-based [[Church Mission Society|Church Missionary Society]]. The prairie missions extended from the area of 20th-century Winnipeg to the [[Mackenzie River]] delta in the north. Notable missionaries included Revd. [[John West (missionary)|John West]], the first Protestant missionary to come to the area in 1820, [[David Anderson (Canadian bishop)|David Anderson]] the first Bishop of Rupert's Land,<ref name="Budd">{{cite web|author= Sarah Tucker |title= The Rainbow in the North A Short Account of the First Establishment of Christianity in Rupert's Land by the Church Missionary Society: Chapter XIII. Rev. R. and Mrs. Hunt—Summary of the Missions—Ordination of the Rev. H. Budd|date= 1851| url= http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/rainbow/13.html| publisher = London: James Nisbet | access-date=12 December 2015}}</ref> [[William Carpenter Bompas|William Bompas]] and the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] Anglican priests: [[Henry Budd]],<ref name="Budd"/> [[James Settee]], and Robert McDonald.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Frank A. |last=Peake |title=From the Red River to the Arctic: Essays on Anglican Missionary Expansion in the Nineteenth Century |journal=Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society |year=1989 |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=1–171 |issn=0008-3208 }}</ref>

There were also Roman Catholic missions in Rupert's Land. One notable missionary was [[Alexandre-Antonin Taché]], who both before and after his consecration as bishop worked as a missionary in [[Saint Boniface, Manitoba|Saint-Boniface]], [[Île-à-la-Crosse]], [[Fort Chipewyan, Alberta|Fort Chipewyan]], and [[Fort Smith, Northwest Territories|Fort Smith]].<ref>{{Cite CE1913 |wstitle=Alexandre-Antonin Taché |first=Adrian Gabriel |last=Morice |authorlink=Adrian Gabriel Morice |volume=14}}</ref>