Red Deer Industrial Institute
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White Whale Indians visiting their children at the school
Red Deer, Alberta, 1914
White Whale people visiting their children at Red Deer Institute: "These people travelled over a hundred miles..."
[Two Indigenous people from a Saulteaux First Nation near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba visiting Red Deer]
Red Deer, Alberta, 1896
[John Susan : child who was taken to Red Deer Industrial Institute]
Red Deer, Alberta, circa 1910s
