Image of two women in a canoe near the shoreline. The canoe is loaded with baskets and sacks.

Item is an image of an open tent with a woman kneeled at the entrance. According to annotations, photograph was taken on the Hayes River between York Factory and Norway House, Manitoba

Item is an image of four boats leaving a wharf and six people on said wharf. According to annotations, photograph was taken near York Factory, Manitoba

Item is an image of a camp with a tent in the background and an open tent in the foreground. According to annotations, photograph was taken on the Hayes River between York Factory and Norway House, Manitoba

Item is an image of a river with one person standing by the hedge. According to annotations, photograph was taken on the Hayes River between York Factory and Norway House, Manitoba

Item is an image of a group of six people on a porch. According to annotations, photograph was taken at the Hudson's Bay Company Residence in Lax-Kw'alaams (previously known as Port Simpson and Fort Simpson). People in the photograph are identified in annotations.

Item is an image of a settlement by a shore. According to annotations, settlement was the Hudson's Bay Company Post at Norway House, Manitoba

Item is an image of a ship on the ground. According to annotations, photograph was taken at York Factory, Manitoba

Item is an image of a building. According to annotations, the house was the manager's house at York Factory, Nunavut

Item is an image of a group of people holding what appears to looms. According to annotations, photograph was taken at York Factory, Manitoba

Item is an image of a boat with three people on it. According to annotations, photograph was taken in the Hayes River, Manitoba

Item is a glass lantern slide of a group of children in a classroom. Twenty six children are visible, ten of them standing, the rest sitting down. The blackboard has what it seems to be linguistic and mathematical lessons written on it. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken at Elkhorn (Washakada) Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls and the Kasota Home for Boys were established in the village of Elkhorn, MB in 1888. Following a fire, the school was rebuilt outside the town in 1895. Ongoing financial problems led to a government takeover of the school. It was closed in 1918 but reopened in 1923, under the administration of the Anglican Church’s Missionary Society. Many students came from northern Manitoba. The leaders of The Pas Indian Band made a number of complaints about the conditions at the school, which was eventually closed in 1949. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Item is a glass lantern slide of four children by the entrance of a building. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken at Elkhorn (Washakada) Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls and the Kasota Home for Boys were established in the village of Elkhorn, MB in 1888. Following a fire, the school was rebuilt outside the town in 1895. Ongoing financial problems led to a government takeover of the school. It was closed in 1918 but reopened in 1923, under the administration of the Anglican Church’s Missionary Society. Many students came from northern Manitoba. The leaders of The Pas Indian Band made a number of complaints about the conditions at the school, which was eventually closed in 1949. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Item is a glass lantern slide of a dispensary cabinet. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken at Elkhorn (Washakada) Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls and the Kasota Home for Boys were established in the village of Elkhorn, MB in 1888. Following a fire, the school was rebuilt outside the town in 1895. Ongoing financial problems led to a government takeover of the school. It was closed in 1918 but reopened in 1923, under the administration of the Anglican Church’s Missionary Society. Many students came from northern Manitoba. The leaders of The Pas Indian Band made a number of complaints about the conditions at the school, which was eventually closed in 1949. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of a waterfront view of Alert Bay with Saint Michael's Residential School and a rowboat with four people in it. The Anglican Church established a day school at its mission in Alert Bay, British Columbia in 1878. It opened a small boarding school there in 1882 and an industrial school in 1894. In 1929, a new building was constructed. The school was known for the arts and crafts produced by the students and the two large totem poles in front of the school building. In 1947, two-dozen children ran away from the school. The subsequent investigation into conditions at the school led to the resignation of both the principal and the vice-principal. By 1969, when the federal government assumed administration of the school, all residents were attending local schools. The residence closed in 1974. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)