French Canadians from Montreal, Canada, founded Terrebonne in the spring of 1879. Fifty-three tickets were purchased for this journey, some of the families settling near Gentilly and some in Terrebonne. At that time there were no other settlers, Native or European, around the Terrebonne area.
Father Pierre Champagne of Red Lake Falls established a mission here in 1879 with masses said in pioneer homes. In 1882 he built the first church on a ten-acre plot given by the Louis Cadieux family. Several priests served the parish until Father W. T. Roy came in 1892 and by 1895 the parish was prosperous enough to build a new and larger church with improvements and decorations made in subsequent years.
The two outdoor shrines, one in honor of the Sacred Heart and the other of the Blessed Mother and St. Bernadette, were erected and donated by Father Samuel Bouchard who came in 1922 and stayed until 1930. Father Ernest Paquin came that year and remained until 1955, followed by Father Louis Proulx until 1969 when Terrebonne became a mission church. Because of declining population and the shortage of priests in the Crookston diocese, the Church of St. Anthony was closed in the year 2000.
Terrebonne Mill The Terrebonne Milling Company served the farmers of Red Lake County from 1884 to the big fire on July 4, 1954, a period of 70 years. In 1884 Hanibal Ames built a roller mill on the Clearwater River just north of Terrebonne. The mill burned in 1887 and again in 1915. The three story high mill received it power from a dam constructed of rock and crib work, about 175 feet wide. Competition from the large milling companies following World War II brought a decline in the need for the smaller local mills. Thus, when a spectacular fire on the night of July 4, 1954, leveled the Terrebonne Mill, it signaled an end to a business made obsolete by time and progress.
-- Take the North coords and add the date on the corner stone
-- Then Subtract 1891.
-- This will give you the North coords to the next stage.
-- Add the last 2 #’s in the date on the corner stone together.
-- Add this to the West coords
-- Add 10 this will give you the West coords to the next stage.
-- N 47 _ _._ _ _ W 96 08 ._ _ _
-- Use the last North coord but replace the last 3 #’s with:
-- Add the last 2 #’s of the corner stone data for the 1st #
-- Using the cornerstone, Take the last # for the 2nd # and the second # for the 3rd #.
-- This will give you the final North coord for the cache.
-- Use the last West coord and subtract 200
-- Replace the last 3 #’s with:
-- Take the last # on the memorial for the first # in the last 3 #’s for the West coord.
-- Take the day and multiply it by 2 for the 2nd #.
-- Take the day and multiply it by 3 for the 3rd #
-- This will give you the final West coord for the cache.
-- N 47 _ _. _ _ _ W 96 _ _._ _ _
If you need help, use this link to check the coords for the final stage.
