Prime Ministers Announcement of the Transfer of the Administration of the Eskimo People in Quebec to the Quebec Government
Progressive Conservative Association, Sudbury Ont.
[Record Group 10: Documents Relating to Residential and Day Schools]
Digitized versions of originals (1879-1949) mainly relating to day-to-day running of individual schools across Canada such as building maintenance, general administration, teachers' salaries and residences, and supplies. In some cases admissions and discharges (residential schools), death of pupils (residential schools), applications to teach, inspectors' reports, drugs and medical supplies for treatment of students, and vocational training supplies are also mentioned. Some headquarters files are included. Also included is link to indexes to the Indian Affairs School Files.
Red River Exodus
Registration of School Committee Indians Coronet Motor Hotel
Report by Lieut. William F. Butler (69th Regt.) of His Journey from Fort Garry to Rocky Mountain House and Back, During the Winter of 1870-71. to Hon. Adams G. Archibald Lieut. Gov. Manitoba, 10th March, 1871.
Excerpt from The Great Lone Land, originally published in 1873.
Riel, Louis, n.d.
Riel's diary 'too costly' / He's 103! - Newspaper clippings. - 27 April 1971, 30 January 1965.
The Savages of America: A Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilization
Sculpture
Shaman's Ritual Song
The St. Albert Settlement: A Study in Historical Geography
Steele Narrows: A Saskatchewan Historic Site
Historical note:
The Battle of Loon Lake concluded the Northwest Resistance on June 3 and was the last battle ever fought on Canadian soil.Steele Narrows: A Saskatchewan Historical Site
Teachers Institute at Indian School
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
Thomas Lick Interview
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.
Zenon Pohorecky and an unidentified Native? Man
Historical note:
Prof. Zenon Pohorecky was an anthropologist and head of the University of Saskatchewan's Dept. of Anthropology and Archaeology. He became an expert on North American Indian Rock Art and worked on behalf of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal causes.