Appendix 3
Outbuildings destroyed by fire: 1867 to 1997
Religious affiliation of the school is identified when there are two schools in a single location.
1)Mount Elgin, Muncey, Ontario, playhouse (1889)1
2)Battleford, Saskatchewan, carpenter’s shop (1894)2
3)Elkhorn, Manitoba, girls’ dormitory (1895)3
4)Old Sun’s, T’suu Tina, North-West Territories (now Alberta), stable (1896)4
5)Mission, British Columbia, laundry building (1896)5
6)Metlakatla, British Columbia, girls’ dormitory, laundry, and the school workshops (1901)6
7)Mohawk Institute, Brantford, Ontario, barns (1903)7
8)Mohawk Institute, Brantford, Ontario, temporary boys’ dormitory (1903)8
9)Birtle, Manitoba, stable (1903)9
10)Coqualeetza Institute, Chilliwack, British Columbia, several outbuildings (1906)10
11)Hay River, Northwest Territories, henhouse (1907)11
12)Mount Elgin, Muncey, Ontario, boys’ playhouse (1907)12
13)Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, pump house (1913)13
14)Mount Elgin, Muncey, Ontario, barns (1915)14
15)Gleichen, Alberta, laundry building (1921)15
16)Round Lake, Saskatchewan, classrooms (1923)16
17)Anglican school on the Peigan Reserve, Brocket, Alberta, principal’s house (1925)17
18)Chapleau, Ontario, former school building (1926)18
19)Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, former school building (1926)19
20)Blue Quills, Alberta, stable (1928)20
21)Spanish, Ontario, boys’ school, chicken coop (1930)21
22)Lestock, Saskatchewan, laundry and garage (1931).22 The school engineer was injured in the fire and the government declined to pay his medical bills, saying they were a church responsibility.23
23)Shingle Point, Yukon Territory, principal’s residence (1934)24
24)Anglican school at Onion Lake, Saskatchewan, principal’s residence (1934)25
25)Birtle, Manitoba, poultry house (1934)26
26)File Hills, Saskatchewan, poultry house (1935)27
27)Fraser Lake, British Columbia, piggery (1935)28
28)Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, power plant (1936).29 Although there were no fatalities, two people were badly burned by the fire.30
29)Roman Catholic school at Fort George, Québec, laundry (1938)31
30)Roman Catholic school at Kenora, Ontario, staff residence (1938)32
31)Anglican school at Onion Lake, Saskatchewan, pump house (1939)33
32)Roman Catholic school at Kenora, Ontario, priests’ residence (1939)34
33)Fraser Lake, British Columbia, poultry house (1940)35
34)Fraser Lake, British Columbia, poultry house (second fire in one year) (1940)36
35)Cranbrook, British Columbia, several outbuildings (1941)37
36)Fraser Lake, British Columbia, poultry house (1942)38
37)Alert Bay, British Columbia, pump house (1945)39
38)Brocket (St. Cyprian’s), Alberta, horse and cattle barn (1946)40
39)Sandy Bay, Manitoba, garage partially destroyed (1948)41
40)Lestock, Saskatchewan, slaughterhouse (1948)42
41)Round Lake, Saskatchewan, barn, the blacksmith shop, and three granaries (1949)43
42)Round Lake, Saskatchewan, barn (1950)44
43)Presbyterian school at Kenora, Ontario, barn (1951)45
44)Brantford, Ontario, Mohawk Institute, two barns (1955)46
45)Amos, Québec, cow barn (1956)48
46)Sioux Lookout, Ontario, school hockey house (1957)47
47)Fraser Lake, British Columbia, pump house (1959)49
48)Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Roman Catholic Mission, barn (1959)50
49)Blue Quill’s, Alberta, barn (1963)51
50)Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, skating rink change shack (1967)52
51)Williams Lake, British Columbia, engineer’s shack (1967)53