Researching and Revealing Indian Hospitals in Canada

In this presentation, Dr. Maureen Lux shares a few stories that she found in the archival and oral history research for her book Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada.

This presentation by Dr. Maureen Lux is part of the “Researching and Revealing Indigenous History” Panel at the 9th Canada’s History Forum, Engaging Authentic Indigenous Histories that was held on November 27, 2016 in Ottawa. This event was organized by Canada’s National History Society and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. We are grateful to the RBC Foundation for their financial support.

“Camsell” (2016) - 13 minutes

The Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta has a long and tangled history. Most people know it today as an abandoned hospital site in the Inglewood Community, just west of downtown, but for the patients and staff who worked and lived there, the Camsell is much more. Connections to the Camsell Hospital stretch back over 70 years and cover most of western Canada and the arctic and are layered with the colonial history of a segregated healthcare system for Indigenous People. What do you really know about the Camsell?

A production of the Edmonton Heritage Council.

Interviewer & Co-Producer: Miranda Jimmy

Production, Direction & Cinematography: Jazon Gonziola

Assistant Editor: Eden Munro

Researcher & Gaffer: Vonn Gonziola

Score & Sound Mix: Alain Levesque, Teknik14