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| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Series |
| No.: | PR0077.0009 |
| TITLE: | Hobbema community, Alberta |
| CREATOR: | SASV-Hobbema community |
| DATE RANGE: | 1894-1993 |
| EXTENT: | 0.90 m of textual records and photographic prints |
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| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | A Catholic school was established at Hobbema in 1887 to serve the local reserves. Bishop Grandin asked the Sisters of the Assumption to administer this school and the first nuns arrived in 1894. The first boarders were admitted in January 1895. The building of a new boarding-school large enough to house 50 children began in 1897. In the early 1920s, the Government of Ottawa authorized the Hobbema missionaries to receive a greater number of boarders. Two successive additions to the building took place and the boarding-school admitted 130 students in 1929. For forty years, the Sisters were responsible for the financial administration of the school and in 1934 the administration of the school was transferred from the Sisters to the Oblates, such as requested by the Government of Ottawa. One building followed another in order to accommodate the growing number of students. In 1969 around 1 000 students attended the school. In addition to working in the school, the Sisters served the local Natives by teaching catechism on the reserves. They left the Hobbema Catholic parish in 1995 |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The series includes the school and convent records. It consists of chronicles (1894-1974), financial records (1894-1969), programs of special events (1901-1967), inventories (1895-1963), list of communions (1895-1968), correspondence and administrative papers (1907-1983), yearbooks (1960-1966), publications (1960-1993) and photos (1900-1993). |
| LANGUAGE NOTE: | French |
| EXHIBITION, PUBLICATION AND OTHER USES: | Fonds PR077; Soeurs de l'Assomption de la Sainte Vierge |
| RELATED FONDS: | PR0077 (Sœurs de l’Assomption de la Sainte-Vierge)
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| RELATED FILES: | Display FileList |