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Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Fonds Description

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500 MNWO Fonds Description

Indian Residential Schools

Title: Administrative Records of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Fonds

Dates: 1917 – 2004; predominant 1954-1993

Extent: 43m of textual records and other material

The Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario is a regional organizational unit or court of the United Church, with jurisdictional responsibility from the Saskatchewan border to Marathon in northwestern Ontario. (Also see All Native Circle Conference Fonds which now serves First Nations ministries in this geography.) The fonds consists of textual and other materials generated by the Conference, the Conference Executive, Conference Staff and Conference Committee members in the fulfillment of their mandate as outlined in The Manual of The United Church of Canada from 1925 to 1994.  This is the largest fonds in the holdings of the Archives.

An overview of the fonds Administrative Records of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Fonds Description provides the context and provenancial history. (Also see below under 500).  The full Finding Aid, a masterful work of organizing by Linda White,  is over 600 pages.  The Full Finding Aid is available here in pdf format, enabling a word search.  To aid researchers, however, the Finding Aid has been segmented into Series documents (Series Titles Document).  The relevant Box Lists, where available, are integrated into the documents.    See the Index below to access them.

The following Series have materials related to Indian Residential Schools: 500/1, 500/2, 501/1, 505/1, 505/2, 509/1, 509/2 – 1, 509/2 – 3, 509/2 – 4, 509/3, 516/3, 518/5, 519/2, 524/1.    Please note materials related to other aspects of work with and among First Nations peoples may be found in other Series.  The 2014 Index on IRS Related Records is available from the Keeper of the Archives.  For background see Indian Residential Schools Overview.

 

 

Index to Administrative Records of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Fonds

There is a subject index as well as an index by Series Number.

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