Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 13: staff of Kamloops school)
Here’s the staff of the Kamloops Catholic mission, who ran the “Industrial School” —
— that is, the residential school for Indigenous youth.
Rev. Father J.M. LeJeune, sup[erior].
” ” Ed. Peytavin.
” ” A. Carion, Ind[ustrial]. Sch[ool].
” ” O. Cornellier.
Bro. P. Surel, lay brother.
” J. Mulvany, “
— “Kamloops Wawa”, February 1898 (number 161), page 18
The school was still pretty new in 1898.
We’ve been seeing, mostly in Chinook Jargon reporting in “K.W.”, that First Nations families had fairly good feelings about it still.
