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Subject: Reserves

St. Eugene Mission

St Mary's Reserve with the Catholic church and Ktunaxa cabins and tipis clustered around it.

Internal ID: 0019.0105
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1900

St. Eugene Mission

St Mary's Reserve with the Catholic church and Ktunaxa cabins and tipis clustered around it.

Internal ID: 0019.0106
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1900

Meeting of Provincial Board

Opening sessions of annual meeting for the advisory board of farmers institutes included East Kootenay representative informing all the B.C. horses are being rustled and driven across the border into Montana to a canned meat factory selling to Belgium.

Internal ID: 0050.0620
Medium:Newspaper
Date: November 20th 1930

Corpus Christi

Kootenay Indians from local reserves congregated at St. Mary's Indian Mission to participate in annual religious ceremony.

Internal ID: 0050.0794
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 10th 1926

Mission Road Reopened

Article stating that the Mission road near the Indian industrial school is open again to traffic after being closed for a week to put in a new bridge.

Internal ID: 0051.0075
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 3rd 1926

Fred Ryckman

Comings and goings of Fort Steele residents and their visitors, including official visit to Indian reservation and St. Eugene Mission.

Internal ID: 0052.0614
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 22nd 1922

Fred Ryckman

Mr. Ryckman of Fort Steele takes train for an official visit to Creston Reserve, and Indian Agent Helmsing of Cranbrook visits Fort Steele.

Internal ID: 0052.0625
Medium:Newspaper
Date: October 6th 1922

Banff-Windermere Highway

Banff-Windermere highway soon to be opened for public transport, but first a party of writers and camera men travelled the new road by pack train and describe the valleys, and natural beauties of the area.

Internal ID: 0052.0640
Medium:Newspaper
Date: October 27th 1922

St. Eugene Industrial School

Year end report from principal of Kootenay Industrial School at St. Eugene Mission, summarizing accomodation, attendance, classroom work, industries, religious training and recreation, with an emphasis on how ex students apply what they learned to live better lives on the reserve.

Internal ID: 0052.0749
Medium:Newspaper
Date: November 16th 1912

Ryckman

Cranbrooks' Fred Ryckman appointed Indian Policeman, his duties will take him to St. Eugene Mission and other reserves in East Kootenay.

Internal ID: 0052.0763
Medium:Newspaper
Date: December 14th 1912

St. Eugene Mission

The Saint Eugene Mission, just north of Cranbrook about 7 miles, was established by Jesuit missionaries in the 1870s and grew to quite a size. A large school and church were cunstructed to serve the Ktunaxa Nation. The church survives to this day.

Internal ID: 0204.0040
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1890

St. Eugene Mission

The St. Eugene Mission located on the St. Mary's Reserve of the Ktunaxa Nation, approximately 10 km north of Cranbrook. The many native houses are clustered arounf the St. Eugene Catholic church.

Internal ID: 0223.0016
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1910

St. Eugene Mission

St. Eugene Mission, six miles from Cranbrook. The building in the background is presumed to have been the first St. Eugene Hospital.

Internal ID: 0366.0022
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000

St. Eugene Mission

The Roman Catholic Church on Ktunaxaq land at the St. Eugene Mission, year unknown.

Internal ID: 0493.0227
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000

Indians Observe Corpus Christi

Indians attend church; rest of day spent on horses.

Internal ID: 0042.0181
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 10th 1926

Little Joe and family at Tobacco Plains 1919

Ktunaxa Nation, Little Joe and family at Tobacco Plains 1919.

Internal ID: 2506.0053
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1919

Mrs. Moses Stevens, 1919

Ktunaxa Nation, Mrs. Moses Stevens and child at Tobacco Plains, 1919.

Internal ID: 2506.0054
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1919

Ktunaxa Nation celebration at Tobacco Plains c.1930

Ktunaxa Nation celebration at Tobacco Plains, Sun Dance lodge in background, c. 1930. An act of spiritual renewal, the Sun Dance was once outlawed by the government.

Internal ID: 2508.0056
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1930

Joseph - Ktunaxa Nations c. 1910

Joseph, Ktunaxa Nations, Tobacco Plains, c. 1910

Internal ID: 2508.0066
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1910

St. Eugene Mission

St. Eugene Mission near Cranbrook with many Ktunaxa tipis and dwellings, June 1898.

Internal ID: 2520.0011
Medium:Photograph
Date: June 1st 1898

St. Eugene Church

A hand-coloured image of the St. Eugene Church located at the St. Mary's Band Reserve near Cranbrook. This Catholic church opened on Palm Sunday in 1898, constructed using funds raised by Father Coccola and Ktunaxa band member Pielle Cronin

Internal ID: 2520.0018
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1950

Ktunaxa Gathering

Large gathering of Ktunaxa Nation members in ceremonial dress c 1930

Internal ID: 2520.0026
Medium:Postcard
Date: 1930