A waist-up portrait taken beside a newspaper article titled: Church Doesn't Want Indian Day Schools. The article outlines the United Church's appeal to the Government not to discontinue Residential Schools. The two main reasons were (a) so they could keep trachoma and tuberculosis in check and (b) so they can better develop moral fibre and Christian character in preparation for full citizenship.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
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Photograph of children praying to a newly-arrived French statue of the Virgin Mary at Holy Angels Boarding School, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, June 1931.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
The old McKay School at La Ronge, Saskatchewan. On the back of the photo is written "First Residential School built at Lac la Ronge by the Venerable Archdeacon Mackay and the late James Brown a native Clergyman, who was the first Principal of the School. This School was burned in January 1920."