Mount Elgin Residential School

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46 images

Portrait of Miss E. McKinley wearing a hat with a feather.

Miss E. McKinley

No date

UCCA, 1976.001P/4511

Portrait of Rev. Samuel Roberts McVitty in a suit and tie.

Rev. Samuel Roberts McVitty

No date, Principal at Mount Elgin Residential School, 1908-1922

UCCA, 1976.001P/4591

Exterior wooden building next to a tree.

[Exterior of Bear Creek Church Hall, Munsee-Delaware Reserve]

Munsee-Delaware Reserve, no date

UCCA, 1990.162P/1143

Exterior of Muncey United Church building, seen from a distance to capture full building.

Exterior of Muncey United Church on the Oneida Reserve

Oneida 41, no date

UCCA, 1990.162P/1144

Children, staff and trustees gathered for a posed group portrait.

[Children, staff and trustees of the Oneida Day School, Muncey]

Oneida 41, 1899

UCCA, 1990.162P/1145

Group portrait of people wearing suits, standing in front of building.

[Convention of Church Officials and Missionaries to Indigenous peoples, Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph

UCCA, 1990.162P/1149

One person standing and two people sitting on the porch of a house, photographed to capture image of full building.

[Unidentified people in front of house at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph

UCCA, 1990.162P/1150

One person standing next to a camera on a tripod. Two other people standing together away from photographer. Outdoors, grass, trees and building seen in distance.

[Photographer at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph

UCCA, 1990.162P/1151

Children sitting at desks in rows facing forward. Image is taken from side of room.

[Class at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph

UCCA, 1990.162P/1152

Two children standing next to each other posing for photo. Image is taken outdoors, on grass, trees and buildings seen in background.

[An indigenous child posing with a white child at Mount Elgin Residential School]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1153

Group of youth , some standing, some sitting in the foreground, gathered for a group portrait outdoors.

[Children at the Mount Elgin Residential School]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1154

Children wearing bee-keeping equipment seen standing with bee hives

[Children working with the bees at the Mount Elgin Residential School]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph

UCCA, 1990.162P/1155

Children standing in the hay field with hay bales.

[Children gathering the grain sheaves at Mount Elgin Residential School]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph

UCCA, 1990.162P/1156

Children standing in a grassy pasture with a herd of cows.

[Children gathering the cows for milking at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1157

A closeup portrait of a group of children seen through stalks of wheat.

[Children in the wheat field at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph

UCCA, 1990.162P/1158

Children standing next to pig pen. Pigs are seen on the side of image, a wire fence runs up the centre.

[Children watching the pigs at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph

UCCA, 1990.162P/1159

Exterior of school house building.

[School house at the Mount Elgin Residential School]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph.

UCCA, 1990.162P/1160

Exterior of the church building facade. Photograher cuts off the top of the small steeple that rises out of the centre of the front of the building.

[Church at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

Stereograph

UCCA, 1990.162P/1161