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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Series | | No.: | PR0077.0003 | | TITLE: | Battleford community, Saskatchewan | | CREATOR: | SASV-Battleford community, Saskatchewan | | DATE RANGE: | 1877-1980 | | EXTENT: | 1.30 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | In 1893 the Sisters of the Assumption arrived at Battleford, in the Apostolic Vicariate of Prince Albert, and took over the school. Battleford was a strategic place for the Natives because the location, at the meeting of the Northern Branch of the Saskatchewan River and its affluent the Battle River, was a meeting place for the Natives and the employees of the Hudson’s Bay Company. During the years 1928-1929 the boarding school was at its best with fifty-two boarders. The Sisters left the school in June 1962. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The series includes the school and convent records. It consists of chronicles (1893-1961), financial records (1893-1961), programs of special events (1909-1961), inventories of properties (1897-1956), registers of attendance of students (1947-1962), lists of students’ clubs (1919-1959), lists of students’ awards (1907-1962), school marks (1947-1962), lists of communions and confirmations (1894-1961), correspondence and reports (1891-1941), files on the Sisters’ properties (1925-1962), historical research (1877-1980). | | LANGUAGE NOTE: | French with a few files in English | | RELATED FONDS: | PR0077 (Sœurs de l’Assomption de la Sainte-Vierge)
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