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Elders in button blankets

Photograph shows a group of elders in what appear to be Haida button blankets and headdresses at the Bill Reid pole raising ceremony in Skidegate.

Elevated view of service from a distance

  • 30-30-01-30-01-02-a039020
  • Item
  • [1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937] (Creation)
  • Part of John Mennie fonds

Long, elevated shot of school field with congregation in middle, proper left. St. Michael’s Indian Residential School appears in background.

Elkhorn Residential School

Item is a hand tinted glass lantern slide of a building from afar. According to annotation, building was Elkhorn (Washakada) Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls and the Kasota Home for Boys were established in the village of Elkhorn, MB in 1888. Following a fire, the school was rebuilt outside the town in 1895. Ongoing financial problems led to a government takeover of the school. It was closed in 1918 but reopened in 1923, under the administration of the Anglican Church’s Missionary Society. Many students came from northern Manitoba. The leaders of The Pas Indian Band made a number of complaints about the conditions at the school, which was eventually closed in 1949. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

[End of canoe log]

Image is of the west end of the canoe log. Cedar scraps and blocks cover the ground in image foreground. Isaac shaping on top of the canoe log, unidentified spectators, and museum exterior are partially visible in image background.

[End of canoe log]

Image is of the west end of the canoe log. Isaac refuels chainsaw near the longhouse's west entrance. Cedar scraps and blocks cover the ground in image foreground. Isaac shaping on top of the canoe log and museum exterior are partially visible in image background.

[End of canoe log sawed off]

Image is of a large section of wood sawed off from (west) end of canoe log. Part of long house and totem pole are visible in background of image. Unidentified plant in image foreground.

[End of canoe log sawed off]

Image is of a large section of wood sawed off from (west) end of canoe log. Parts of museum exterior and longhouse are visible in background of image.

[End of model]

Image is of model canoe from above. Collected shavings and scraps are visible inside model.

Enjoying Clam Chowder

An image of adults and children sitting and eating at a table. According to the documentation included in the collection, the description of the image states "Everyone in the family enjoys Gina's clam chowder."

Entrance to Cape Chidley Run

Item is an image of a sea entrance in a cape in the Labrador peninsula. According to annotations, the cape is Cape Chidley in the Labrador Coast

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