Fragile.  Some pages have let go of the binding.

Entries Included in register: Laundry, Payments, Tin Shop, Tin Smith, Tailor, Advertising, Workroom, Farm, Shingwauk Settlement, Carpenter, Bootmaker, Printer, Improvements to land, building additions, Fencing, Road Making, Industrial Fund, Stocklist, Stocktaking, Journal Entry

Notes: The above topics are included in this ledger. Each entry includes a detailed record of what was sold/purchased and the cost. The Stocklist entry includes a list of materials and tools found within the industries at the school. There is a detailed journal entry at the end of the ledger. Within the entry, it discusses accomplishments within each industry at the school, weather, and religious activity, which includes a record of Confirmation of students at the school.

Fragile. Approximately 40 pages are missing from rear of ledger.

The following topics are mentioned in the ledger: Farm, Carpenter, Bootmaker, Printer, Outside, Trades, Industrial Fund, Advertising, Sundries, Balancing of Accounts, Memoranda, Journal

Fragile.

Entries Include: Farm, Farm Improvements, Kitchen Garden, Carpenter, Shingwauk Factory, Carpenter Factory, Bootmaker, Printing, Printing Office, Loss and Gain

Notes: The above topics are included within this ledger. The kitchen and garden entries are comprised of purchases made from the school’s kitchen and garden. The Industrial Fund is the breakdown of costs and payments received for each industry within the school, which includes the “balance deficit.” This ledger also includes the loss and gain entry of the profit-making industries within the school. There is also a short “Interim Journal” entry that discusses the progress/accomplishments within each industry.

Fragile.  Some damage to spine and binding.

Ledger Entries Include: General maintenance, Memorial Chapel, Farm, Weaver, Carpenter, Bootmaker, Wawanosh Home Fund, Farm and Garden, New Building Fund, Contact Information for Persons and Commercial businesses, Staff and Teachers with Salary, Accounts of Students

Notes: This ledger includes the above entries. Within the Memorial Chapel entry, there are specifics around the repairs, cost of repairs and carpenters hired. The entries also include an extensive list of staff and teachers that lists their salaries. At the end of the ledger is numerous pages of student’s financial accounts.

Ledger Entries Include: Salaries and Boards, Printing, Advertising, Things for Sale, Clothing Account, Laundry Account, Apprentices, Apprentice Fees, Fuel and Sundries, Repairs, House Linden, Aid to Industries, Farming and Gardening, Children’s Travel Expenses, General Account Maintenance Fund, Shingwauk Maintenance Fund, Summary for the Year, Indian Department Account, Table Of Children and Supporters, List of Children Received into the Home,  Annual Reports, Examination Results, Annual Cost of the Institution, Presents Received.

Notes: This book includes the above entries. The Aid to Industries lists permanent improvements taken place at the School. The Summary for the Year entry includes grants, donations, earned money and expenses. The Annual Report entries includes a list of contributors to the building fund, mostly monetary, the Maintenance Fund and Expenditures.

Fragile.  Binding is damaged.

Entries Included: Plan of keeping Accounts, Reference Marks, Cash Accounts

Notes: This ledger includes the above entries. At the front of the ledger, there is a “Plan of Keeping Accounts” and “Reference Marks,” this explains how the cash book is used and the codes utilized within the accounts. The cash accounts are linked to trades and operations within the school. It also includes payments to various Reverends and educational institutes.

Entries Included: Reference Marks, Plan For keeping Accounts, Cash

Notes: This ledger includes the above entries. At the front of the ledger, there is an extremely detailed coding system for reference marks within the ledger. There is also a detailed description for the Plan of Keeping Accounts. Most of this cash book holds records for payments to commercial accounts and payments to individuals. Some of these individuals are religious members.   

Very fragile.  Binding badly damaged. Front and rear covers almost completely detached from interior of book.

Entries Included: Bootmaker (furniture, supples, tools, finished work), Carpenter (tools, supplies, lumber, sundries), Weaver (Material), Tailor (tools, material, sundries), Elkhorn Farm (produce, supplies, tools), Farm and Garden (livestock, produce, implements, dairy, leather, tools, material), School Material, Stationary, Bibles, Blankets/Sheets, Clothing, House Utensils in Store, Fuel, Provisions (Meat, Groceries), Principals Clothing Store, House Inventory

Notes: This ledger includes the above entries with the specifics of each stock in parentheses. There is also a House Inventory that includes a stock list of the following areas: classrooms, accountant’s office, passages, dining hall, matron’s kitchens, back entrance, lavatory, kitchen cupboard, entrance hall, library, matron’s sitting room, school room, school material, back school room, school cap room, linen closet, matron’s closet, bedrooms 1, 2, 3 & 4, Captain’s room, East Dormitory, Front Dormitory, North Dormitory, Industrial Bedroom, Cottage, West Bedroom

Fragile.  Warping of pages possibly due to water damage.

Entries Included: Students (Boys, Girls, Primary, Upper Years), Teachers

Notes: This ledger includes detailed entries of students who attended between the years of 1914-1940. It includes lists of boys, girls, primary students and upper year students. The ledger also lists class lists by teachers, as well as, individual lists of teachers.

The Shingwauk Indian Residential School used double entry bookkeeping in the maintenance of its financial records.  Financial transactions were entered in the journal the first time they were processed.  The transactions were then posted to financial ledgers on a monthly basis.

Entries Included: Daily, Weekly and Monthly financial record for the School

Notes: This ledger includes a detailed financial record for the school for the dates between January 1, 1887 to January 4, 1894. The beginning of the ledger includes around 5 pages of accounts aligned to E.F. Wilson, followed by 3 pages of Outside Trades accounts. The remainder of the ledger is “General Accounts” aligned to the school. These include teacher and staff salaries, costs aligned to the industries at the school, items sold from the school (farm, garden, weaver, etc.) to members of the public and commercial accounts.

The Shingwauk Indian Residential School used double entry bookkeeping in the maintenance of its financial records.  Financial transactions were entered in the journal the first time they were processed.  The transactions were then posted to financial ledgers on a monthly basis.

Entries Included: Monthly Personal accounts, Cross accounts, The Treasurer of Receipts, The A.I. Homes Payments  

Notes: This majority of this ledger includes detailed statements of Monthly Personal Accounts and cross account listings. The ledger also has entries for the Treasurer of Receipts that lists accounts brought back. There are a few pages of entries for The A.I. Homes Payments that lists accounts brought back.

Entries: Church, Cathedral and Sunday School addresses, Reverends, Address Book, Subscription Amounts

Notes: This ledger includes addresses for churches, cathedrals, Sunday schools and reverends who provided their contact information to the school. The dollar amount they gave is included as well as a stamp of the year. Some of the entries provide a description of the note/letter included. There is also a address book a the back of the ledger with names, addresses and amounts of money. Most of the addresses are within Canada, with one as far as New Zealand

Form I.A. 4-54 (11/59)

Oversized.

Form I.A. 353

Oversized