IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1931, 23 May
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Indian Resedential School, Shubenacadie, NS
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Elsie Charles Basque
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.**.02/ N-23,975
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IMAGE INFORMATION
Three young girls wearing fancy white dresses, standing outside the Residential School. Dr. Basque writes, "We, older girls, were required to make our uniforms, brown woolen skirt and pillow ticking blouses. The only day we were allowed to dress up was on May procession Sunday." [Elsie Charles Basque to R.H. Whitehead, 6 November 1997.] Elsie Charles is on the left, Hazel Paul on the right. There are other unidentified girls in the background. On obverse: "1932.".
KEYWORDS
girls; schools; Indian Residential School; Nova Scotia, Shubenacadie