Mount Elgin Industrial School
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Exterior of the church and shed at the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Exterior of church and shed, Mount Elgin Institute.
Exterior of the Muncey Indian Residential School
Ontario, circa 1909
Exterior of Mount Elgin Institute, with children playing in the yard.
Horse and carriage in front of the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Horse and carriage, with staff and their families standing by, in front of Mount Elgin Institute.
Exterior of the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Exterior of Mount Elgin Institute, with children standing in the yard.
Exterior of the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Exterior of Mount Elgin Institute.
Mount Elgin Institute, circa 1909
Ontario, circa 1909
Buildings at Mount Elgin Institute.
Buildings at the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Children with milk buckets outside the barn, Mount Elgin Institute.
Mount Elgin Indian Residential School, Teacher's Residence and Hospital, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Students digging ditches for water pipes, Mount Elgin Institute.
Mount Elgin Institute, circa 1909
Ontario, circa 1909
Staff and girls outside teacher's residence and hospital, Mount Elgin Institute.
Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, view of the River Thames and the Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1910
View of the River Thames with Mount Elgin Institute in the distance.
Muncey Indian Institute, 1909
Ontario, 1909
Staff on the porch of Mount Elgin Institute.
Pupils doing the laundry at the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Girls and boys doing laundry, Mount Elgin Institute.
Staff and girls at the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Staff and girls, Mount Elgin Institute.
Some of the younger boys and girls at the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Some of the younger girls and boys in their best clothes, Mount Elgin Institute.
Indian boys at the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Boys with some of the staff at the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Boys with some of the staff, Mount Elgin Institute.
The staff at the Residential Indian School, Muncey
Ontario, 1940
Staff of the Mount Elgin Institute.
Students at the Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute, Muncey
Ontario, circa 1909
Students of the Mount Elgin Institute.
