Anglican Church of Canada Ministry Report: General Synod Archives: Seven brothers, captured in time
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38393
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2013 May
- Volume
- 139
- Issue
- 5
- Page
- insert 2
- Notes
- "Eddie Dillon had never seen this family photo [included with article]. It was June 2011, and Dillon was at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Inuvik national event when he spotted the snapshot of all seven Dillon brothers. They were standing, circa 1965, on the steps of Stringer Hall, and Anglican-run hostel in Inuvik". The photo was one of many taken by "a Stringer Hall nurse, Mossie Moorby, [who] had documented her life with the students in the 1960s and '70s. After Moorby died, her daughter gave some of these school photos to the General Synod Archives in Toronto. In spring 2011, after decades in boxes and albums, the photos journeyed back to Inuvik with Nancy Hurn, General Synod archivist. Hurn brought a display of school photos to this gathering, as she does for all national TRC events. It's part of the archives' work to make all records available to former residential school students". "The Dillon children grew up at Stringer Hall. Each September they flew four hours from their home in Tuktoyuktuk, N.W.T., to Inuvik, where they studied at Sir Alexander Mackenzie Day School and stayed at the hostel until June. Dillon told the TRC commissioners that his schooling was "a tool my mom and dad wanted me to have .. a tool I'm going to use for the rest of my life to get me further in where I want to go. Dillon now lives in Tuktoyuktuk and works as chair of the Northwest Territories Water Board. He said his 12 years at Stringer Hall gave him lifelong friends -- many now leaders in local organizations".
- Eight page insert (1-8) with May 2013 issue of Anglican Journal. Anglican Church of Canada Ministry Report. Insert produced by Resources for Mission Dept.
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod. Archives
- Hurn, Nancy
- Dillon, Eddie
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools
- Anglican Church of Canada - Residential schools
- Anglican Church of Canada - Residential schools - Employees
- Moorby, Mossie (Mossie Iris McCutcheon), 1915-2000
- Stringer Hall (Inuvik, N.W.T.)
- Photographs - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Canada. Truth and Reconciliation Commission