Vancouver--a 76 year-old elder in Fort St James, BC, has succeeded in getting reprinted an old prayer book and hymnal written in the Carrier language by Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice, O.M.I., after he arrived in the North in 1885.Vancouver Vancouver, city, Canada Vancouver, city (1991 pop. 471,844), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia, opposite Vancouver Island and just N of the Wash. border. -- A 76 year-old elder in Fort St James James, person in the Bible James, in the Gospel of St. Luke, kinsman of St. Jude. The original does not specify the relationship. James, rivers, United States James. , BC, has succeeded in getting reprinted an old prayer book and hymnal written in the Carrier language by Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice Adrien-Gabriel Morice (1859-1938) was a missionary priest belonging to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He served as a missionary in Canada, and created a writing system for the Carrier language. , O.M.I., after he arrived in the North in 1885. Father Morice established a system of symbol writing for the Natives. This prayer book was published in 1904. In 1938, the book was replaced with the Carrier language in the Roman alphabet alphabet [Gr. alpha-beta, like Eng. ABC], system of writing, theoretically having a one-for-one relation between character (or letter) and phoneme (see phonetics). Few alphabets have achieved the ideal exactness. . This was the book which Catherine Coldwell received as an eight-year-old and preserved during her lifetime, while other copies were thrown out. Last year a new edition of 500 copies was made available based on her remaining copy, with the help of University of BC staff. |
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