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Benedictine Orphanage 1912-1940


Dependent children aged 2-14 years from Man. & Sask. Some placed by the Children's Aid Society of St. Adelard.


317 Pritchard Ave., Winnipeg, MB 1912-ca. 1915
Arborg, MB 1915-ca.1940


Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict.


Client Files (may include names of parents, age of child, medical treatments received, and record of baptism) from ca.1912 (with some gaps). Some photographs but subjects are not identified.
--Held by the Archives of the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict, Winnipeg. Access is by written application to the Archivist.
Manitoba Department of Health and Public Welfare records include some pertaining to the Children's Aid Society of St. Adelard (1912-1942), which occasionally placed children in this institution (Government Records Description A 0114, Schedule GR 3734).
--Held by the Provincial Archives of Manitoba (Government Records). Access by application to the FIPPA Access & Privacy Coordinator, Manitoba Family Services & Housing.




From 1961-1970, the Sisters operated a girl's boarding and day school in Middlechurch, Manitoba. This institution did not operate as an orphanage.