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 […]

  Digitized Records Guide to material on the website Links Histories and Samples of Documents from the Archives collection IRS in General and since 1990’s Brandon School Portage School Norway House School Photographs   From Canadian Confederation, it was the policy of the government of Canada to provide education to a portion of Aboriginal peoples […]

On this page School History Records Held Documents History For a fuller history of the school see The Children Remembered, United Church of Canada Residential School Project. 1895–1925 (Mission Board of the Methodist Church), 1925-1969 (United Church of Canada) 1969-1972 (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) The Brandon Indian Institute, five kilometres northwest of Brandon, in southern […]