Archdeacon MacKay travelling by canoe with Miss Annie Taylor (Deaconess) and Mr. Turner (Farm instructor) on North Saskatchewan River near McKay School near The Pas, Manitoba. - [ca. 1920]
Photo consists of four white people and four First Nations men in two canoes. The First Nations men are Louis and Robert MacGillivray, Henry Wilson and Henry Bloomfield.
Besides Archdeacon MacKay, the other white people are incorrectly identified. See below. Miss Kate E. Halson is travelling in Archdeacon Mackay's canoe. Canon and Mrs. E.K. Matheson are in the other canoe.
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Same photo as P7565-126, but people identified as Mrs. Matheson, the Rev. Canon E.K Matheson, Archdeacon J.A. Mackay, and Miss Halson. The photograph has been published using these names and verified in W.A. Letter Leaflet that the Dorcas Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Kate E. Halson did make the trip from The Pas, MB to Lac La Ronge, SK by canoe in 1920.
View west from south bank of river from vantage point 50 metres in front of Christ Church (Anglican), The Pas. Nearby islands in river are part of Opaskwayak First Nation (formerly The Pas Band), including more distant Fisher Island (out of sight 8 km upstream) which was site of original Mackay Indian Residential School.
View west from south bank of river from vantage point 50 metres in front of Christ Church (Anglican), The Pas. Nearby islands in river are part of Opaskawayak First Nation (formerly The Pas Band), including more distant Fisher Island (out of sight 8 km upstream) which was site of original Mackay Indian Residential School.
View west from south bank of river from vantage point 50 metres in front of Christ Church (Anglican), The Pas. Nearby islands in river are part of Opaskawayak First Nation (formerly The Pas Band), including more distant Fisher Island (out of sight 8 km upstream) which was site of original Mackay Indian Residential School.
Photo consists of a winter view of front of school, which opened 1915 and burnt 1933.
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Photo - Incorrectly titled as "Lac La Ronge School" in finding aid and elsewhere, where similar copies of this image have been reproduced and used by other institutions (e.g. Sask. Archives. S-B2821).