IRSHDC : School : Norway House (MB) [1726]

Norway House [Norway House Residential School building, Norway House, Manitoba] Residential School (c. 1925). Source: The United Church of Canada Archives 1993.049P/1250; The Children Remembered.

Norway House (MB)

Dates of Operation

1899 -1967

Description

The Methodist Missionary Society of Canada began operating this northern Manitoba school in 1899. The building burned down in 1913 and a replacement school was opened in the following year. The new building burned down in 1946 and was replaced in 1954. In one tragic incident, in the winter of 1907, a young boy was badly frozen and lost several toes whenin alarm over physical disciplinehe ran away from the school. The residence was converted to a day school in 1967 when the property was transferred to the provincial government. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Denomination

Methodist Church, United Church of Canada

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Alternate Name(s)

Norway House Boarding School
Norway House United Church
Norway House United Church Indian Residential School
Rossville

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Location

"Point is on the site of the third residential school building that was opened in 1954 and closed in 1967. This school building was constructed directly over the foundation of the second residential school building. The second school was opened in 1914 and burnt down in 1946. The first school building, constructed in 1899 and burnt down in 1913 was located approximately 50 metres east from the second/third location" (Orlandini, 2019).

Location Credit

Rosa Orlandini. The school/hostel location data was collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Morgan Hite (Atlas of Indian Residential Schools of Canada), Stephanie Pyne (Residential Schools Land Memory Mapping Project) and Rosa Orlandini (Map and GIS Librarian, York University Libraries). The location data and associated attribute data was enhanced, revised and updated by Rosa Orlandini, in consultation with the Archivists at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

Location Source

Orlandini, Rosa, 2019, "Residential Schools Locations Dataset (Shapefile format)", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/FJG5TG, Borealis, V3, UNF:6:TTc1mMvx2BlBqBgIN05xVw== [fileUNF]