Welcome to The United Church of Canada Archives located at The University of Winnipeg. Our Archives are available to the public.  If you are interested in using our records please contact the Keeper of the Archives to make a research appointment or to submit a brief inquiry. In the development of the Canadian West the […]

Task to Identify Authorship For a history course in 1995, Pat Hardy went sleuthing through an archival document “Historical Sketch of the Portage la Prairie Indian School and Mission 1886-1936” speculated by the Archivist to be written by a woman.  The handwritten manuscript proved not to be written by Jessie Ella (Phiney) Murray, but by […]

The story of the United Church and Indian Residential Schools is more than a century long and does not end when the schools closed. Beginning in the early 1990s, people began to tell their stories publicly, calling the Church and the government to account. This collection of documents, a small sample of the thousands of […]