Found in the AlgomaU Archives

Highlights from the Engracia De Jesus Matias Archives and Special Collections & Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre Archives held at Algoma University.

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The Elders of the Anishinaabe display has moved from the West Wing up to the Wishart Library at AlgomaU.

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Happy 2017! We’re starting the week with a throwback to 100 years ago  - the January 1917 issue of the Algoma Missionary News.

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Algoma University will be closed for Christmas break Saturday December 24, 2016 to Sunday, January 1, 2017. The Archives regular hours will resume on Monday, January 2, 2017.  

Enjoy the holidays!

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Today we're highlighting holiday postcards featuring winter landscapes circa 1909.These postcards are all part of the Benna Fuller fonds

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Holiday Themed Wordless Wednesday: "Christmas at Shingwauk" painting by L.R. Nanchin. Part of the Algoma University Ephemera Collection http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/19820

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Today's batch of Christmas postcards are floral themed.  The postcards are from circa 1910 and are part of the Benna Fuller fonds

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Happy Friday! Over the next week we will be sharing Holiday and winter themed postcards and photographs from our archives.

To start things off here are couple of bird themed Christmas postcards circa 1909.  These postcards are part of the Benna Fuller fonds 

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Wordy Wednesday:  A booklet from circa 1940 on St. John's Indian Residential in Chapleau, Ontario.

The Chapleau School was a staff training site where women teaching candidates were "sent here for a period of three months in order that they may have some actual experience in the routine duties of various departments of the Residential School activities before being given staff appointments."

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The Legacy of Education at Residential Schools.

This display is up in the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre at Algoma University, room EW202.

The Legacy of Education at Residential Schools- Looking at how the education system at residential schools left a legacy that carries on to indigenous communities today.

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Glimpses into Canada’s Past: Shingwauk IRS Photo Album

Dorothy (Lye) Browers was a staff member at the Shingwauk Indian Residential School. Dorothy served as the Girls Supervisor from 1947-1948 at Shingwauk.  In 1948 Dorothy left her position at Shingwauk for an appointment as the Bishop's secretary in Sault Ste Marie.  While working as the Bishop's secretary Dorothy continued to act as a brownie leader for the Shingwauk brownie troop.

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Glimpses into Canada’s Past: Shingwauk IRS Photo Album

George Young was a guidance counselor at the Shingwauk Residential School. George Young later married Ella Visitor, who was a student at Shingwauk. 

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Glimpses into Canada’s Past: Shingwauk IRS Photo Album

Benna Fuller (1888-1977) is the daughter of Ben and Mary Ann Fuller. Benna Fuller's father, Reverend Benjamin P. Fuller (1865-1945) was the principal of the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Indian Residential Schools from 1909-1929.

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Shingwauk Gathering posters and information. Join us July 29-31st at Algoma University.

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35 Years of Bringing Survivors Together

This display comes during the 2016 Shingwauk Gathering and Conference hosted by the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association, the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre and partners taking place July 29-31, 2016 at Algoma University in Sault Ste Marie, ON. It is to celebrate the first gathering of residential school survivors on the site 35 years ago. This year's theme is "Fulfilling the Vision".  You can register online at http://goo.gl/forms/XeDnDnjO5RTdqY503

For more information contact the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, 705-949-2301 ext 4623 or [email protected].

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Glimpses into Canada’s Past: The Shingwauk IRS Photo Album

Arthur Bear Chief is a a member of the Blackfoot band, in Gleichen Alberta. He attended the Old Sun School in Gleichen. In 1960 he became employed part time at Old Sun. He also worked at Shingwauk Hall from August 1963-1964 and 1966-1967. He also worked at Horden Hall in Moose Factory. He formed Judo clubs at the Shingwauk and Moose Factory schools. Arthur Bear Chief also taught gymnastics at the Shingwauk Indian Residential School.

This album comes from his time at the Shingwauk School.

To see more of the collection, please visit the archives page at: http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/21112

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Glimpses into Canada’s Past: Shingwauk IRS Photo Album

Bernice Logan (nee Mason) was a staff member at two residential schools. Bernice taught at All Saints Residential School school in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan from 1949-1952. She taught at the Shingwauk Indian Residential School in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario from 1952-1955. This is a series of photographs from the Shingwauk Residential School taken from our own albums here at the SRSC. 

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Today, Member of Parliament, Terry Sheehan, announced $165,314.00 in funding for the Shingwauk Residental Schools Centre at Algoma University.

The funding for Algoma University comes as part of the Heritage Canada Museum Assistance Program and will be used to fabricate and install an exhibition entitled “Realizing, Healing, and Reconciliation through Education”.

The exhibition will trace the history of the Shingwauk Hall Indian Residential School and investigate issues related to assimilation, cultural loss, and reclamation of Canada’s indigenous peoples.