My MA research project focuses on the correspondence of Reverend E.F. Wilson, founder of the Shingwauk Industrial Home and Wawanosh Home for Girls in Bawaating (Sault Ste. Marie, ON). Spanning from 1876-1888, the letters written by Wilson were recently digitized by the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre and give insight to how early residential schools operated and were maintained. The project will consider how Wilson used settler colonial networks to establish what Wilson called “branch homes” of the Shingwauk Home, one of the attempts resulting in the opening of the Washakada Home in Elkhorn, Manitoba. I will also be considering how doing archival research has been changed in context with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action.

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