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St. Anne's Residential School also known as Albany Roman Catholic Residential School, Albany Indian Boarding School was located in Fort Albany on the southern shore of Albany River as well as part of Sinclare Island in the Cochrane Disctrict of Northern Ontario. The school was relocated three times during its operation, it's final location is part of the present day site for Fort Albany First Nation. Due to its remote location the school could not be accessed by land, the river and later planes were used to bring supplies and students to the school.

St. Anne's Residential School was part of the Canadian indian residential school system and one of the 139 residential schools identified by Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. Operated by the Roman Catholic Church with support and funding from the Federal Government of Canada through the Department of Indian Affairs, Department of Indian Education from 1904 to 1976, the school was staffed by members of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and Grey Sisters.

Cree and Ojibwa children from the areas surrounding the Fort Albany community of 1400 people were required to attend the residential school for 10 months of the year. In official correspondence to and from the school these students were referred to as “inmates”.

Operation
gen content http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Search/Pages/results.aspx?k=residential%20school http://archives.algomau.ca/main/sites/default/files/StAnne.pdf http://www.nrsss.ca/Resource_Centre/SteAnnesIRS/ http://archives.algomau.ca/main/taxonomy/term/1093

archives content 1.a http://books.google.ca/books?id=nugvkp-jcREC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=Peetabeck+Government&source=bl&ots=G7J5qGuiTj&sig=A7RocYJYQ4Dot3Ko8efGf_tcOQE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=edMtU9jKDKmCygHy64DgAg&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Peetabeck%20Government&f=false The first location of the school was in the roman catholic division of peetabeck p98 sites were built and maintained with unpaid student labour p 102

1.b Records for St. Annes available in the Algoma University archive begin in 1911 with building maintenance and administration files. A letter on June 6 1922 from the school's administration indicated that the school was to be relocated between 1922 and 1923. The letter stated that relocation was a necessity because, due to flooding “the school is a menace to the lives of the inmates.“ Construction efforts were funded by the Department of Indian Affairs, Department of Indian Education and the provincial administration of the Oblate Missionaries. During the construction of the second school students and staff were temporarily relocated to the local rectory. Construction of the new site began in 1922 and was expected to be completed in the fall of 1923 but was delayed due to issues with transporting equipment by river and debt. In 1925 the new location was still under construction so provisional repairs were made to the original building to continue its temporary usage with an $8000 grant from the Department of Indian Education. These temporary repairs on the first building included: reconstructing the foundation, renewal of the floors and “draining of surroundings”. In 1928 the steam lumber mill used for construction of the second school burnt down causing further delays. Though the second school was still under construction in 1932 it was deemed habitable. The second school had electricity and “could receive 100 children”, students were housed in the main building with separate buildings for necessities including laundry. It was constructed at the cost of approximately $125,000. The main building of the second location of St. Anne's burnt down on August 23 1939 with reports of no loss of life.

2. 1923-1938 http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13583

3. (http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13615)

The pupils, with ages ranging from 6-15, were moved to a temporary building measuring 75 by 35 for the following winter pending construction of a fireproof building. The fireproof building was the final location of St. Anne's Residential School and was built to house approximately 80 students; 40 boys and 40 girls in separate dormitories (http://www.wawataynews.ca/archive/all/2002/6/13/Out-of-the-ashes-rises-a-people-Fort-Albany-ushers-in-a-new-era-of-education_11200)

notes:

-via the wiki: Albany Mission Indian Residential School (Fort Albany Residential School) RC - 1912 to 1963

- v St. Anne’s Indian Residential School1936 - 1964 CHECK LISTS TO VERIFY

-what happened when the communities split from old fort albany in the 1950s new fort albany on the south shore of the albany river and on sinclair island and kashechewan on the north bank of albany river???????????????

more research: -Edmund Metatawabin -grey nuns -peetabeck -fort albany first nations http://www.peetabeck.com/Pages/aboutus.aspx

Records
The University of Algoma has made available the records of death at St. Anne’s Indian Residential School

Records of Admissions and Discharges
1923 to 1938 http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13583

1939 to 1946 http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13587 http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13585

1946 to 1952 http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13586

1946 to 1952 http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13589 http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13588

Records of Death
1936 to 1942 http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13590

Financial Records
1939 to 1940 http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13577

1940 to 1952 a http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13578

1940 to 1952 b http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13579

1940 to 1952 c http://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/13580

Missing Children
http://www.trc-cvr.ca/pdfs/Working_group_on_Mis_7456E0.pdf

Charlie Hunter
img from the star here

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/03/04/this_is_about_reuniting_a_family_even_in_death.html#

http://www.wawataynews.ca/archive/all/2012/11/14/scholarship-honours-legacy-charlie-hunter_23713

http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=415

http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/pdfs/Working_group_on_Mis_7456E0.pdf

http://activehistory.ca/2011/08/returning-home-repatriation-and-missing-children/

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/03/15/star_readers_rally_to_bring_charlie_hunter_home.html#

Survivors
Edmund Metatawabin, former Chief of [Fort Albany First Nation] and former student at St. Anne’s Residential School, organized a conference for the survivors of St. Anne’s Residential School in 1992. The accounts were used as the basis for a five-year investigation into the school and its faculty by the [Ontario Provincial Police] from 1992 to1996. The result of the investigation was the trial of

The resulting documents of the [OPP] investigation into the school and are reported to be more than 7,000 pages in length and containing more than 900 witness testimonies. The [Federal Government] requested and obtained copies of court transcripts from these trials pending lawsuits from former students and has been in possession of these documents since 2003. Under the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement former students/residents of St. Anne's Residential School were allowed to apply for compensation in the form of a Common Experience Payment (CEP). Those former students/residents subject to sexual, serious physical abuses or other abuses with psychological impact were allowed to apply for additional compensation via Independent Assessment Process (IAP). The IAP is intended to be a non combative process of private hearings where survivors present their stories to an adjudicator who has all relevant documents pertaining to the school in question.

The original narrative of St. Anne's Residential School based on the documents made available for IAP by the Federal Governement stated “no known incidents found in documents regarding sexual abuse at Fort Albany IRS.”

Faculty Trials and Convictions
case narrative and request documents here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/residential-school-survivors-revictimized-by-ottawa-critics-1.2439636 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/residential-school-survivors-want-government-lawyers-turfed-1.2558462

Date Charges Result from cbc published doc

Dispute Between Survivors and Federal Government
July 5, 2013. Fay Brunning, the lawyer representing survivors from St. Anne's Residential School reports that she and her clients are denied access to documents that would corroborate their testimony in the IAP.

IAP http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/Schedule_D-IAP.PDF http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/FULL%20List%20of%20Schools-%20ENGLISH.pdf https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100015638/1100100015639 https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100015632/1100100015633 http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1315320539682/1315320692192

canlii doc http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2014/2014onsc283/2014onsc283.html

other court docs http://www.classactionservices.ca/irs/library.htm

trc doc http://www.myrobust.com/websites/trcinstitution/File/pdfs/TRC%20SEEKS%20ACCESS%20TO%20POLICE%20FILES%20NEWS%20RELEASE%2016%20Dec%202013.pdf http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=8

gen sources http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Search/Pages/results.aspx?k=residential%20school http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/st-anne-s-residential-school-survivor-says-ottawa-hiding-evidence-1.2466795#docs http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/judge-orders-ottawa-to-release-st-annes-residential-school-documents/article16334512/ http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/01/15/st_annes_residential_school_ottawa_will_turn_over_police_records_to_survivors.html http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/18/st-annes-residential-school-edmund-metatawabin_n_4464319.html http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/14/st-annes-residential-school_n_4598265.html http://www.wawataynews.ca/archive/all/2013/7/24/survivors-st-annes-residential-school-still-traumatized_24779 http://o.canada.com/news/st-annes-residential-aboriginal-school-abuse-victims-documents/

-Survivors from St. Anne's Residential School did not have the records of staff convictions as evidence

-refusal to turn documents over here w timeline leading into chart of evidence check website for IAP process on releasing documents mandate

-As a result the narrative of St. Annes Residential School that was presented at the IAP hearing read "no record of abuse"

Legacy
(CBC radio photos)

On May 29, 2002 St. Anne’s Residential School building caught fire, the interior of the building and its contents were destroyed. While the contents were insured for $150,000 and replaceable, historical documents dated back to the mid-1970’s were destroyed. The building its self was not insured     no one was harmed in the incident. The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal did not investigate the incident because there were no fatal injuries and damages did not exceed $500,000.

Prior to the incident the school was converted to house the Nishnawbe Aski Police Services, education offices, band office services, the post office, a coffee shop, private residences, a youth centre and child and family services. -plans to turn the building into a memorial site (http://www.wawataynews.ca/archive/all/2002/6/13/Out-of-the-ashes-rises-a-people-Fort-Albany-ushers-in-a-new-era-of-education_11200))

The bid for a new school began in 1970 (http://www.wawataynews.ca/archive/all/2002/6/13/Out-of-the-ashes-rises-a-people-Fort-Albany-ushers-in-a-new-era-of-education_11200)

meaning that high school students no longer have to travel out of the community to attend school

Peetabeck Academy opened May 30, 2002, covering 54,000 sq. feet the school was built to accomidate 343 students from K4 to Grade 12. The facilities include two kindergarten classrooms, 11 standard classrooms, a library resource centre, auditorium/gymnasium, and multi-purpose rooms, home economics, industrial arts, science labs, computer labs, as well as space for administration and health services. The school also features a circular cowrtyard with a fire pit at the centre of a curved wooden walkway beneath a dreamcatcher supported by timber poles.