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The Bell of Frog Lake is a church bell that once hung on a timber frame next to the church dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel (''Notre Dame du Bon Conseil'') in the settlement of Frog Lake. The settlement was the site of the Frog Lake Massacre part of the Cree uprising of the North-West Rebellion in western Canada. Led by Wandering Spirit, young Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake in the District of Saskatchewan of the Northwest Territories〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://esask.uregina.ca/management/app/assets/img/enc2/PDF/51C276D2-1560-95DA-430F6CC3E32921701.pdf ) 〕 on 2 April 1885, where they killed nine residents. The bell was one of twenty identical bells purchased by Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin for the Diocese of St Albert.〔 For a time the bell was believed to have been taken from the church of Batoche after the Battle of Batoche.〔 〕 ==History== After the massacre the bodies of Fafard, Marchand, Delaney and Gowanlock had been hurriedly placed in the cellar under the church by several of the Métis residents who were now captive. They, at great risk, also moved the bodies of Quinn and Gouin into the cellar of a house near where they were killed but were refused permission to touch the other victims. The church, the rectory and all the buildings of the Frog Lake settlement were burned on April 4, 1885 (the day before Easter). All that remained of the mission was the bell tower and the cemetery. On June 14 the Midland Battalion (the advance guard of Major-General Strange) arrived and buried the bodies in the cemetery.〔 The bell which was still suspended from the fire blackened bell tower by the church on June 8 disappeared. Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin suspected that the soldiers had taken the bell but a search found no trace. Father Laurent Legoff o.m.i. (in charge of the St. Raphael Mission at Cold Lake) also mentions that the bell of the Frog Lake Mission had been taken from the bell tower. General Strange upon learning of the theft blamed the military teamsters. Several years later the Canadian government reimbursed the Mission for their lost bell. In 2014 evidence that soldiers from the Midland Battalion had indeed stolen the bell surfaced in Ontario. The Midland Battalion served in the Alberta Column of the North West Field Force until it was demobilized on 24 July 1885.〔Canadian Forces Publication A-DH-267-003 Insignia and Lineages of the Canadian Forces. Volume 3: Combat Arms Regiments.〕 Charles H. Winslow who was a captain in the Midland Battalion and received the North West Canada Medal for his participation in the North West Rebellion〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Library and Archives Canada (Medals, Honours and Awards) )〕 wrote of the bell: William Young, a private of the Millbrook Company in the Midland Battalion who received the North West Canada Medal for his participation in the North West Rebellion,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Library and Archives Canada (Medals, Honours and Awards) )〕 also mentioned the bell in his diary on Friday July 25, 1885: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bell of Frog Lake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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