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[Chip, Norman, Isaac and Ron press edges of model canoe together]

Image is of Chip, Norman, Ron, and Isaac pressing edges of model canoe together following its first steam. Model canoe is covered with a blanket to prevent steam burns. Unidentified persons, one with video equipment, stand at a slight distance behind grate, watching the process.

[Chip, Ron and Isaac adjust posts]

Image is of Ron sitting atop the east end of the canoe log, holding a horizontal post as Isaac assists from the ground. Chip stands on the south side of the log and measures the frame's vertical post with a steel square. A totem pole is visible in image background.

[Chip, Ron and Isaac measure posts]

Image is of Ron sitting atop the east end of the canoe log, holding a horizontal post as Isaac measures from the ground. Chip stands on the south side of the log and measures the frame's vertical post with a steel square. A totem pole is visible in image background.

[Chip, Ron and Isaac measure posts]

Image is of Chip using a steel square to measure a vertical post at the east end of the canoe log. Ron sits atop the canoe log, holding a horizontal post, as Isaac measures part of the (bow).

Choutla Residential School

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of landscape with a the Choutla Residential School, Carcross, Yukon. Item is a duplicated of item no. 875, fonds 008 Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds, from the Anglican Church of Canada General Synod Archives. In 1903 students from the school at Forty Mile, Yukon, were moved to a small school in Carcross. In 1911 the federal government built the Choutla school. The school had a reputation for poor health, harsh discipline, poor food, and unpleasant living quarters. In the 1940s, the principal admitted to strapping students so severely that they had to be held down. The school burned down in 1939 and was rebuilt in 1944. A new school was built in 1953. It closed in 1969. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

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