Research Tips: Changing Hospital Names

The facilities where patients were sent could be called by a number of different names. This can be especially tricky when doing database searches. The following list of possible names can be a start for thinking about different possible names for a particular place.

Dynevor Indian Hospital

Dynevor Indian Hospital
St. Peter’s Dynevor Indian Hospital
Dynevor Sanatorium
St. Peter’s Dynevor Sanatorium

Clearwater Lake Indian Hospital

Note: Sometimes Clearwater is rendered as 2 words: Clear Water. This may make a difference when doing database searches.

Clearwater Lake Indian Hospital
Clearwater Lake Sanatorium
Clearwater Lake Hospital
Clearwater Indian Hospital
Clearwater Sanatorium
Clearwater Hospital

Brandon Indian Sanatorium

Brandon Sanatorium
Brandon Indian Hospital
Assiniboine Hospital (name after the Sanatorium closes)
Assiniboine Indian Hospital

Ninette Sanatorium

The Manitoba Sanatorium
Ninette Sanatorium
Pembina House or Ninette Residential School
Pelican Lake Training Center

St. Boniface Sanatorium

St. Vital Sanatorium

Note: From the 1930s to the early 1970s, Winnipeg had a St. Boniface Sanatorium and the St. Boniface Hospital. Both centers were run by the Grey Nuns. These are two separate institutions that are located in two different areas of Winnipeg.

Fisher River Indian Hospital

Hodgson Indian Hospital
Percy Moore Hospital