Fonds AffB 5 - Coqualeetza Institute fonds

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Coqualeetza Institute fonds

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    • Source of title proper: Title based on contents of the fonds

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    Fonds

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    CA UCCBC AffB 5

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    • 1888-1941 (Creation)
      Creator
      Coqualeetza Residential School

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    Physical description

    14 cm of textual records

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    Name of creator

    (1886–1894, 1894–1940)

    Administrative history

    The Coqualeetza Industrial Institute, also referred to as Coqualeetza Residential School was located on the shores of Luckakuck Creek in Sardis, British Columbia, about five kilometres south of Chilliwack in the traditional territory of Skowkale First Nation. It was operated by the Woman's Missionary Society and the General Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Church of Canada, and after 1925 the Board of Home Missions of the United Church of Canada. It was first founded as a day school in 1884 by Missionary Charles M. Tate and his wife, Caroline. Two years later, they began boarding some students in the mission house, first at their own cost and later with the support of the federal government and the Woman's Missionary Society (WMS). In 1888, the WMS built a residential school named the Coqualeetza Home, which continued to operated until it burned down in 1891. With some help from the federal government, the school was rebuilt and opened as the Coqualeetza Industrial Institute in 1894. In 1900, the General Board of Missions took over from the WMS. In 1924 the federal government built a new building to accommodate 200 pupils, which opened in October. In 1925, The United Church of Canada took over operations. In 1939 the Institute closed, and afterward the building became the Coqualeetza Sanitorium under the management of the federal government. It was partially destroyed by fire in 1948, with a new building being completed in 1956.

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    Scope and content

    Fonds consists of Baptism, marriage and burial records (1887-1941); Subscriptions (1914-1925); School registers (1888-1911); and Extra-curricular group records (1934-1935). The missionary subscription lists include those of the Lower Fraser Circuit for the period 1914-1920, mainly listing subscriptions from the Coqualeetza Institute. Also, there are a few records of marriages in the civil register that took place in Alberni, B.C., most likely at the Alberni Indian Residential School.

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    Physical condition

    Some volumes are fragile

    Immediate source of acquisition

    Unknown

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    Language of material

    • English

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      Restrictions on access

      Most volumes are restricted because they contain personal information and are subject to the provisions of the BC Personal Information Protection Act.

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      File list available

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      Associated materials

      Alberni Indian Residential School fonds
      George H. Raley fonds
      Robert Clyde Scott fonds
      Jonathan Wood Galloway fonds, Chilliwack Museum and Archives (Galloway was a Methodist minister who taught at Coqualeetza)

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      Accruals

      No further accruals expected

      General note

      Fonds description contains historical terms that some may consider offensive.  Although they do not reflect today's sensibilities, the terms are being maintained because they are part of an official name or designation at the time the records were created, and they provide evidence of the attitudes and usage of that period.

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      BCAUL control number: UCCBC-73

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      Final

      Level of detail

      Full

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Revised August 11, 2011
      Revised November 3, 2011
      Revised August 22, 2014
      Revised March 6, 2019

      Language of description

      • English

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