All Saints Boarding School
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All Saints Boarding School in La Ronge, Saskatchewan. Run by the Anglican Church All Saints was built in 1920-21 under Archdeacon McKay's supervision.
Photograph of the Montagnais Children with Father Ernest Lacombe taken on the Cold Lake Reserve.From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Historical note:
See also S-B6550.Historical note:
Rev. John Richard Matheson was the husband of Dr. Elizabeth (Scott) Matheson. They were married in 1891, and she went with him to the Anglican mission on a reserve at Onion Lake, 200 miles Northwest of Saskatoon. As well as a missionary, he served as builder, rancher and trader to finance their work. After she completed medical studies at his urging, he built her a small mission hospital at Onion Lake, and the couple ran a mission school there.Historical note:
Reverend Hunt oversaw the construction of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Stanley Mission between 1854 and 1860, today the oldest standing building in the province. See also S-B6546.