La Collection de photographies X-6 témoigne de la présence et des activités missionnaires des jésuites dans des communautés du Nord de l’Ontario. Les photographies incluent des églises, territoires et paysages, écoles, étudiants et résidences pour étudiants. Elles incluent également des portraits de jésuites œuvrant dans les diverses communautés du Nord de l’Ontario.

Le fonds est organisé en 10 séries qui témoignent de l’organisation originale dans lesquelles les photographies étaient classées : Wikwemikong, Waubaushene, Spanish, Sault-Ste-Marie, Port-Arthur, Penetanguishene, White River, Schreiber, Victoria Mines et Missions de l’Ouest.

La collection inclut des photographies qui représentent différents lieux, territoires et personnes du Nord de l’Ontario, incluant des Autochtones et des colons. Les photographies comprennent des portraits des missionnaires évoluant dans ces communautés et lieux, des églises, des presbytères, des résidences jésuites, et des écoles. Elles offrent un regard colonial sur les rencontres entre colons euro-descendants et les territoires, communautés et personnes autochtones de la Nation Ojibwe.

La collection comprend des photographies de Byng Inglet, Cape Croker, Fort Hope, Fort William, Garden River, Sault-Sainte-Marie, Île Manitoulin et autres communautés autochtones et villages du Nord de l’Ontario.

The Spanish Residential School fonds contains records that pertain to the establishment, administration, operations, and eventual closing of the Spanish Residential School. It also contains records that pertain to the day school in Wiikwemkoong, which preceded the Spanish school. The schools were administered by the Jesuit fathers of the Upper Canada Province, initially named Independent Mission of Canada (1887-1907), Province of Canada (1907-1924), then Vice-Province of Upper Canada (1924-1939).

The fonds is organized into five series: Administration and Financial Records; Student Affairs and Community Life; Spanish Residential School Buildings; Jesuit Personnel and School Staff; Spanish Residential School Photography Laboratory. It contains correspondence, diaries, newspaper clippings, financial statements, student registers, and student publications. The fonds also contains photographs associated with the schools’ cultural and sports programs, including hockey and football, photographs of the schools’ buildings and Jesuit personnel, and photographs of the Spanish community. Notably, the fonds also contains photographs produced by the students themselves in the school’s photo laboratory, established by Fr. William P. Maurice, S.J.

The fonds documents the activities of Julien Paquin, S.J. It contains information on the presence of Father Paquin within different missions in Northern Ontario and concerning his involvement in the First World War. It also includes his correspondence. The fonds is comprised of five series: correspondence, military service, missions, spiritual notes and reflections and Collège Saint-Boniface. The documents part of the fonds range from 1896 to [1935].

The fonds testifies to the Jesuit presence in several communities in Northern Ontario since 1844. The material attests to the work of the Jesuits as missionaries and chaplains in the region of Lake Superior, Sault Ste. Marie, Manitoulin Island, and in the communities along the Canadian Pacific Railway, up until 2015. In addition, the fonds provides information on the Jesuit involvement and interest in setting up schools for the Indigenous children of the region, including the Spanish Residential School, as well as on the history of the region and on the Ojibwemowin language. Documents dating from the 1960s onwards show new reflections within the Jesuit community, leading to a shift in their approach to the work they carried out among Indigenous communities.

The fonds contains diaries and announcement books, personal and historical notes, correspondence, financial statements, annual reports, parish records, Status animarum, baptismal and marriage certificates, church visitors’ books, Jesuits’ vows, insurance policies, meeting minutes, souvenir brochures, programs, legal deeds and agreements, and contracts. It also contains audio reels and cassettes, videocassettes, objects, publications, maps, architectural drawings, photographs, slides, and negatives.

The collection contains a Jesuit Brothers’ Supplementary Bulletin with information pertaining to his religious career. The collection includes both original letters and some photocopies of letters written by and to Brother Jennesseaux from the 1860s to 1880s, to Collège Saint-Marie in Montreal, Guelph, Ontario, and Manitoulin Island, both in French and English.

The collection documents the life and activities of Eugene Papineau, S.J. The collection reflects Father’s Papineau presence in Northern Ontario, particularly at Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island. The collection includes biographical information on Father Papineau, as well as correspondence written by and about him. It also contains photographs that testify to his activities in Northern Ontario, as well as portraits.