Asile Ritchot / Ritchot Orphanage

The Asile Ritchot / Ritchot Orphanage is a place that I want to take my children to for a field trip day soon. I think that it would make an interesting day.

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Asile Ritchot / Ritchot Orphanage (3514 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg)

The first building on this site, erected sometime in the 1870s, was the home of Joseph Lemay. On his death in 1892, it was donated to the local church and, in 1903, Father Noël-Joseph Ritchot arranged the donation of the building and surrounding land to les Soeurs de Misericorde, who operated it as an orphanage from 1904 to 1948. In 1911, they undertook a major expansion, constructing the present three-story brick building.
When Asile Ritchot closed in 1948, the building was used as a seminary by the Oblate Order. In 1970, the X-Kalay Foundation (later renamed the Behavioral Health Foundation) began using it for the treatment of people with drug or alcohol addictions.