Mary Bruce, born on a Manitoba farm in 1902, worked as a matron at Norway House Residential School (United Church of Canada) in Norway House, Manitoba from 1929 – 1932. Miss Bruce was a photographer and also a watercolour painter. She also developed and printed the photographs that she took. Several of the photographs have […]

Title: Mary E. Bruce Fonds Dates: 1929 – 1932 Extent: 1 folder of photographs Repository: The United Church of Canada Archives Manitoba Northwestern Ontario Conference and All Native Circle Conference Historic Note Mary Elizabeth Bruce was born in 1902 in the Bear Creek District of Manitoba to John Moodie Bruce (1870-1952) and Maggie (Margaret) Campbell (1873-1939) […]

Margaret (Reid) May (b. 1935) attended the University of Alberta from 1954 – 1956 for teacher training and after a year of teaching in Edmonton, went to teach at the Norway House Day/Residential School, in Norway House, Manitoba. She taught at Norway House from 1957 – 1959. The images in the fonds are from her […]