Residential School Records

Examples of non-governmental records held at Library and Archives Canada:

Reference Examples of number Collection title and details volumes or files Church records Church Missionary Society [Anglican]—microfilm and microfiche copies of Instrument de recherche MG 17, B 2 headquarters correspondence and accounts, reports and journals from mission MSS 23 posts, and letters sent to the missionaries across North America. Colonial and Continental Church Society [Anglican]—microfilm copies of MG 17, B 4 MSS Finding Aid 40 minutes, reports, publications and other records of the CCCS and predecessors. Reverend Allen Salt—Methodist missionary, after teaching at Alderville Industrial Shelf list prefaces microfilm MG 29, D 53 School. He kept journals 1854–1855 and 1874–1899 at various missions. reel C-15709 Private records of Superintendents General of Indian Affairs David Laird—Served as Minister of the Interior, 1873–1876; Lieutenant-Governor MG 27, ID10 of the North-West Territories, 1876–1881; and Indian Commissioner for the North- No finding aid (R-4037) West Territories, Manitoba and Keewatin, 1898–1914. MG 26, A Sir John A. Macdonald—Served as Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Finding aid MSS 104 (R-4505) 1878–1887 (Minister of the Interior, 1878–1883, and Privy Council 1883–1887). Hayter Reed—Served as Indian Agent for Battleford District in 1881; Assistant MG 29, E 106 Commissioner for the North West Territories in 1884, Commissioner in 1888 and Finding aid MSS 1394 Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in 1893. Edgar Dewdney—Served as Indian commissioner for Manitoba and the Northwest MG 27, IC4 Territories, 1879-1888; Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories, 1881- Finding aid MSS 56 (R-4505) 1888; Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, 1888– (electronic) 1892. MG 27, ID6 Thomas Mayne Daly—Served as Minister of the Interior and Superintendent No finding aid (R-4035) General of Indian Affairs, 1892–1896. MG 27, IID15 Clifford Sifton—Served as Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Finding aid MSS 136 (R-7693) Indian Affairs, 1896–1905. (electronic)

Examples of photographs and maps of residential schools:

 RG85, Accession # 2003-02187-6, 1973-357 NPC, Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch: Photographs  R8236-0-7-E, David Ewens collection, Indian Industrial Schools Album  R13144-0-2-E, Ryan Swain Family Fonds (St. Paul's Residential School, Aklavik and Herschel Island, NWT)

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