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| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Series |
| No.: | PR0077.0013 |
| TITLE: | Onion Lake community, Saskatchewan |
| CREATOR: | SASV-Onion Lake community, Saskatchewan |
| DATE RANGE: | 1874-1985 |
| EXTENT: | 0.60 m of textual records, photographic prints and transparencies |
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| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Bishop Grandin invited the Sisters of the Assumption to come to Onion Lake where they arrived in 1891. The Sisters opened their school in September of the same year with 30 native students. In 1894 the day-school was completely destroyed by fire and the idea of building a boarding school was submitted to Ottawa. In 1895 the Sisters received 38 boarding children. The school quickly experienced financial difficulties. In November 1918 all the children and seven Sisters became sick with the flu. New orphans arrived at the school at the end of the epidemic. In 1934 the administration of the boarding school was transferred from the Sisters to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The nuns continued to teach and work in the school under an Oblate principal. In 1961-1962 the personnel of the school included fourteen nuns. In 1970 the building of a new school began and it opened in September 1973 when the old boarding school closed. The Sisters remained in Onion Lake to continue their missionary work until July 1985 when they left the area. |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The series includes the school and convent records. It consists of chronicles (1891-1984), minutes (1910-1970), financial records (1922-1960), programs of special events (1894-1963), inventories (1894-1963), list of communions and confirmations (1892-1966), correspondence and administrative papers (1874-1985), bulletins (1950-1970), photos and transparencies (1900-1985). |
| LANGUAGE NOTE: | French |
| RELATED FONDS: | PR0077 (Sœurs de l’Assomption de la Sainte-Vierge)
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| RELATED FILES: | Display FileList |