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The sub-sub-series includes records from the following Roman Catholic schools: McLeod, Brosseau, Cold Lake, Fort Kent, Fort Vermilion, Grand Centre, Gurneyville, Lac-la-Biche (St. Catherine School), Legal Secondary School, Pickardville, Pincher Creek, Saint-Edouard, Trochu - Pontmain School District, Bonnyville Public School, St. Albert High School.

The records can include maintenance and construction files, general correspondence, correspondence with school council and minutes, financial reports and grant files, academic progress reports, student accounts, attendance registries, inscription registries, yearbooks, school personnel files, contracts and sale records, inventories, and some photographs.

The sub-sub-series includes records from the St. Patrick orphanage in Prince Albert, SK, the day school for Le Goff, Beaverdam, Beaver Crossing, and Cold Lake, AB, Our Lady of Fatima School in Maillardville and the Fédération canadienne française de la Colombie-Britannique, BC, Cowessess Residential School in Marieval, SK, Lebret Residential School, SK, Beauval Residential School, SK, Lejac School and Kamloops Indian Residential School, BC, and Teslin Residential School, YK.

The records vary according to school, and can include correspondence, financial records and other administrative material, historical notes, paper clippings, files of meetings with First Nations, lists of children and students' accounts, sale documents, school bulletins, construction contracts, plans and blueprints, articles, constitutions and minutes, yearbooks, event files, and photographs and negatives related to the school.

Oblate Run, Operating Dates: 1893-1970s
The mission at Lac La Biche was established in the 1850s, with a school attended by Indigenous children established shortly after. Roman Catholic missionaries established a boarding school at Lac la Biche in 1891, and this became a residential school known as Notre Dame des Victoires (or Lac La Biche Mission school). This school ran from 1893 until 1898, at which point the school buildings were moved to the Saddle Lake First Nation, and the school was renamed Blue Quills. The residential school was relocated once more in 1931 to a location near St. Paul, Alberta. The school was operated by the Oblates until the 1970s, after which Blue Quills become Canada’s first residential school controlled by First Nations people.