Mount Elgin Residential School

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Exterior of church building, both the side and front of the church is visible along with the lawn surrounding building.

[Exterior of the church and shed at the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1162

Children playing on a grassy space in the foreground with the Mount Elgin Residential School building and trees seen in the background.

[Exterior of the Mount Elgin Residential School with children playing in the yard]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1163

People standing with horse and carriage in foreground building seen in the background.

[Horse and carriage, with staff and their families standing by, in front of the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1164

Children standing in the front left foreground, with the building and trees seen in the background.

[Exterior of the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School] with children standing in the yard.]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1165

Exterior of Mount Elgin Residential School seen from the front of building. Sides of building are out of frame.

[Exterior of the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School] with children standing in the yard.]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1166

Exterior buildings at Mount Elgin Residential School, whole front and side of building is visible.

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

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1167

Children lined up, holding milk buckets outside along the wall of a barn.

[Children with milk buckets outside the barn, Mount Elgin Industrial Institute [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1168

Students digging a trench, standing in a line overlooking the trench.

[Children digging trenches for water pipes at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1169

Children and staff, seated and standing posed for a photo on the steps of the teacher's residence and hospital.

[Staff and children outside teacher's residence and hospital, Mount Elgin Residential School]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1170

[View of the River Thames with Mount Elgin Residential School in the distance]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1171

Staff standing and sitting posed for a photo on the porch of Mount Elgin Residential School

[Staff on the porch of Mount Elgin Institute [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1172

Children looking at the camera, pausing from doing laundry.

[Children doing laundry, Mount Elgin Industrial Institute [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1173

Staff and children seated and standing posed for a photograph, outdoors in front of Mount Elgin Residential School.

[Staff and children in front of Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1174

Some younger children and a staff member standing posed for a photograph in front of Mount Elgin Residential School

[Some of the younger children in their best clothes at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1175

Children standing in two lines forming a V, outdoors in front of Mount Elgin Residential School

[Indigenous children standing in lines outside of Mount Elgin Industrial Institute [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1176

Children and staff seated and standing posed for a photograph, outside in front of Mount Elgin Residential School

[Children with some of the staff in front of Mount Elgin Industrial Institute [Mount Elgin Residential School]]

Chippewa of the Thames, circa 1909

UCCA, 1990.162P/1177

Group of staff members, standing posed for a photograph on steps of Mount Elgin Residential School.

[The staff at Mount Elgin Residential School]

Chippewa of the Thames, 1940

UCCA, 1990.162P/1178

Group of youth, divided by assumed gender seated and standing for a photograph outdoors under a tree.

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

Ontario, circa 1909

Students of the Mount Elgin Institute.

UCCA, 1990.162P/1179