IRSHDC : School : Mount Elgin (ON) [1744]

[Buildings at the Mount Elgin Industrial Institute, Muncey [Mount Elgin Residential School]] (c. 1909). Source: The United Church of Canada Archives 1990.162P/1167; The Children Remembered.

Mount Elgin (ON)

Dates of Operation

July 1, 1867 - June 30, 1946

Description

The Mount Elgin school in Munceytown, in what is now Ontario, was established in 1850. An 1858 government report concluded that the school was a failure and recommended that it be closed. By 1871 it was back in operation as a residential school. In 1902 an inspector concluded that the “boys of this school are not only working, they are being worked.” In 1908, students set fire to the school on three different occasions. In 1942 a senior Indian Affairs official described Mount Elgin as the “most dilapidated structure” that he had ever seen. The school was closed four years later. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Denomination

Methodist Church

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Alternate Name(s)

Mount Elgin Indian Industrial Institute
Mount Elgin Indian Institution
Mount Elgin Industrial and Training School
Mount Elgin Industrial Farm and Institution
Mount Elgin Industrial Institute
Mount Elgin Institute and School
Muncey Indian Residential School
Muncey Institution
Muncey ROTARY
St. Thomas

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Location

"Point is on the site of the main building of the Mt. Elgin Institute that was constructed in 1890s and was torn down in the 1950s. The only building that remains on the site is one of the barns. The Mount Elgin Institute was located a couple of kilometres south of Muncey on the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation No. 42" (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]