The
Ninette Sanatorium opened in May 1909 and over the next several
decades, the facility grew into the largest sanatorium in the province,
comprising over a dozen buildings and taking in thousands of
tuberculosis patients. With advances in medicine it was eventually not
required and closed in 1972. (Gordon Goldsborough/Manitoba Historical Society)
A
University of Winnipeg researcher is developing an online research tool
to help Indigenous communities and families find missing tuberculosis
patients who were sent to Manitoba hospitals and sanatoriums but never
came home.
Lindsay
has spent several years working as an archivist and researcher. Her
experience includes working with the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. Some of her work has involved helping families research
connections to residential and Indian hospital schools, and find where
missing residential school children may be buried.
Due to
privacy laws, the tool won't be a database of records of missing
tuberculosis patients, but will instead empower families and communities
to do their own research, Lindsay said.
"I think it needs to
be something that is not just a set of links, but that gives people some
information about where to start looking and how to use the information
from that to get other information, and sort of helps to give people a
bit more of a step-by-step understanding of how to perform their own
research," she said.
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