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Enfant-Jésus Archives

In 2007, the Enfant-Jésus Heritage Site Corporation passed a resolution to start an ‘Archives Collection’. The documents to be included in this collection were from the town of Richer (Thibaultville) and two other communities: La Coulée, to the west and Brokenhead (Tête-Ouverte) to the east. These two communities were included because of their proximity and frequent intermingling with our local history.

Our archives committee is in charge of collecting and preserving a permanent collection that is accessible to the public during the summer months with the purpose of conserving, preserving, interpreting, assembling and exhibiting the French Canadian and Metis cultural heritage of our area.

Archives are collections of recorded materials in context. This may include correspondences, diaries, minutes, legal documents, financial documents, literary productions, printed material such as certificates, awards clippings, scrapbooks, photographic material, maps, charts, and newspaper articles.

Our archives committee is also member of the Association of Manitoba Archives (AMA) founded in 1992 whose mandate is to preserve the heritage of the people and institutions of Manitoba. We are also a member of the Rural and Northern Archives Manitoba (RNAM) whose primary mandate is to not only provide a forum for discussion for AMA members with a primary interest in RNAM but also act as a support network for the archival development and operation in rural areas.

Archivists are specialists dedicated to appraising, arranging, describing, preserving and displaying the information to community advocates, researchers and genealogists. (Source, AMA)

We are interested in any information (documents and photos) that pertain to Richer, La Coulée and Brokenhead). Families, schools, institutions such as churches, businesses, sawmills, military affiliation, dairy farms, Dawson Road, French Canadian and Métis cultures, Father Francois Xavier Normandin and Father Jean-Baptiste Thibault, Women’s History, Sisters of St. Joseph, politics, sports, religious and non religious groups, outstanding persons etc.

Another service that we provide is recording local family histories through interviews conducted with residents, their descendants or persons’ stories that are connected with these three rural towns by the use of oral history which is recorded on a cassette. Should you know of someone or would like to give an oral interview, please contact Patricia at 204-422-6880.

Patricia Gendreau October 31, 2012
For the Enfant-Jésus Heritage Site Corporation