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January 15, 2026
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Latest social media trend is 2026 feels like 2016. Well, at Rossbrook House we’re going all the way back to 1976 and celebrating our 50th birthday all year long!
Watch for Throwback Thursdays and lots of reminiscing!
Rossbrook House is open all weekend for children and youth.
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The Rossbrook House kitchen is open 7 days a week, providing filling and delicious meals to ages 6 to 24. There is variety each week. There are also fresh fruits, sandwiches and soups available in the self serve fridge.
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Yesterday we bid farewell to our beloved and respected Sister Margaret Hughes. A number of staff and community watched the livestreamed service at Rossbrook House in the morning while a few traveled to Saskatoon to pay their last respects in person.
Sister Margaret will never be forgotten.
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Rossbrook House Foundation is planning the 2026 No Child Alone Dinner for April 30 to celebrate 50 years of Rossbrook House. This fundraising gala will be held at Alloway Hall, Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg. Tickets are $150.50 each and are available online: rossbrookhouse.ca/2026-nca-dinner-tickets/
There are many sponsorship opportunities plus corporate table purchases to show your support of the children and youth of Rossbrook House.
If you can’t be there in person, but would like to support, you can make a donation here: rossbrookhouse.ca/2026-no-child-alone-dinner-donation/
Please make plans to celebrate this amazing milestone with Rossbrook House staff, volunteers, children and youth on April 30, 2026!
Read more about the NCA Dinner here: rossbrookhouse.ca/2026-no-child-alone-dinner/
#nca2026
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From the very beginning, Rossbrook House has been surrounded by a circle of love from our volunteers. Some bake for special occasions, or read to the children, or share their time in our programs. Others take on governance roles, leading through its boards and committees. In 1979, the first Kateri Cup Volunteer award was presented for exceptional volunteer service and commitment to the children and youth of Rossbrook House.
In 1985, Vera Missyabit received the Kateri Cup. Vera was a well-respected volunteer who baked Bannock and made stew for many special occasions.
In 2023 the Leslie Galloway Volunteer Award was created in honour of Leslie Galloway who has been a volunteer with Rossbrook House since 1976. For 50 years, she has been involved in a variety of ways including reading with the participants in Learning Always, sharing her medical knowledge during the Teddy Bear’s Picnic, and her wisdom with the Rossbrook House board.
Over the years there have been hundreds of amazing volunteers, and all have played a unique and important role in the story of Rossbrook House! Thank you all.
#rossbrookis50 #TBT
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Thank you to @Red River Co-op for the generous donation of Red River Co-op food store gift cards in support of the Healthy Kitchen program at Rossbrook House. This donation will go a long way in helping to feed children and youth every day. The Rossbrook House kitchen makes daily meals- an after-school meal, lunch for the Eagles’ Circle students, and brunch, lunch, and late afternoon meal every weekend when we are open 24 hours!
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How fun does this look? A mini pool table tournament was recently held at Rossbrook House. You know how much we all love playing pool… how about the mini version?!
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The Intermediates group (ages 12-17) can take part in young women’s and young men’s programming. One of the activities they are learning is beading. It’s wonderful to see past participants like Chantel volunteer her time to teach them how to make beaded earrings and lanyards.
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Funeral services for Sister Margaret Hughes will be held on Wednesday morning at 10:30 at St Patrick’s Parish in Saskatoon.
Updated information:
Mass - Wednesday, January 14, 10:30am Saskatoon time
St. Patrick's Church
3331 Centennial Dr
Saskatoon, SK
This is the link to watch the livestream:
youtube.com/live/WxvU-7Pt8Hg?feature=share
The students of Wi Wabigooni are honourary pall bearers. ❤️
Rossbrook House staff will be watching the livestream Wednesday morning. If you would like to join us at 658 Ross Avenue, please call 204.949.4090 to register so that we can accommodate all.
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Programs at Rossbrook House include fun outings like going roller-skating. Both age groups enjoy lacing up some skates and trying to stay upright with their friends!
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Former Rossbrook House Executive Director is still involved in helping children and youth and Winnipeg!
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#TBT DYK? Rossbrook House began at 588 Ross Avenue, several houses down from its current location. The Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary moved there in 1974. Sisters Geraldine MacNamara, Marylyn Gibney, and Lesley Sacouman had a small pool table in the basement. The only other pool table in the neighborhood was at Freight House and was in poor condition.
After an invitation for a couple of neighborhood teens to play pool and have a meal, soon regular groups of up to 40 youth were cramming into the basement. Sister Gerry would ask them to leave at 11pm and once again they found themselves looking for a place to hang out. Needing a space for the youth in the area that could be open when they needed it the most, an opportunity arose to use the empty church on the corner of Ross and Sherbrook. On January 20, 1976, the drop-in centre officially opened. Sister Marylyn suggested the name using the location, creating the name Rossbrook House.
The Sisters remained in 588 even after Sister Gerry’s death in 1984. Other Sisters came and went until they moved into other residences in St Boniface. Sister Lesley retired inm2024 as the Executive Director of Holy Names House of Peace. Sister Marylyn retired from St Mary’s Academy after 30 years and serves on the alumnae board.
After their move, the house at 588 Ross, with all its wonderful memories and special meaning, was gifted to Rossbrook House. With costly upgrades needed and concerns about the house remaining empty, 588 was sold in 2023. We look forward to seeing it revitalized and brimming with life once again and hopefully many more happy memories!
rossbrookhouse.ca/roots/
#rossbrookis50
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January calendars are up for both age groups and include the always exciting annual winter games!
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The Young Mothers’ program runs weekly at Rossbrook House. The participants’ children are babysat while the moms enjoy some activities like making ribbon skirts! Learn more about this valuable program: rossbrookhouse.ca/programming/young-mothers-program/
January 4 was National Ribbon Skirt Day. It began in 2023 after a child in Saskatchewan wore a ribbon skirt to a formal day at school and was met with disparaging remarks. Her family rallied around her and education on the importance of this garment and pride in Indigenous culture was brought back to the community.
Participants have also received ribbon skirt teachings as part of Rossbrook House programs.
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It is with heavy hearts that we share the sad news of the passing away of Sister Margaret Hughes on January 6, 2026, in Saskatoon.
Sister Margaret, originally from Edmonton, came to Winnipeg in 1979 to create the new Sion community. Thanks to her dedication the alternative elementary school Wi Wabigooni was established. She was a teacher there for over 30 years, sharing her sense of humour and caring nature with hundreds of students, before retiring in 2015.
She was involved in the creation of the annual Rossbrook House Pow Wow. In 1982, it began as a thank you to the community for welcoming Wi Wabigooni. Over the years it has continued and grown with Sister Margaret at the helm. Both Sister Margaret and Sister Bernadette O’Reilly were there each year helping the participants to dress in their beautiful regalia and leading them out into the field. In 2018, Sister Margaret passed the baton to her former Education Assistant, Sheila Chippastance, knowing that the Pow Wow would be in good hands.
The Sisters of Sion had been a part of the Rossbrook House community, living on Elgin, for forty years. They wanted to live and work where they felt they were most needed. They met with the Sisters of the Holy Names to discuss joining the work at Rossbrook House and moved to a rented house on Elgin Avenue in 1979, later buying their own property down the street where as many as eight women once lived.
Both Sister Margaret and Sister Bernadette O’Reilly moved to the Sisters of Sion community in Saskatoon in the Spring of 2019. Before they left, Rossbrook House held a farewell concert for them featuring The Barrel Boys and The O’ Pears. Even though they have been living away from Winnipeg, they are still very much a part of Rossbrook House! Their dedication to the children and youth of Rossbrook House is well documented through their work. Both were inducted as members of the Order of Canada in 2022.
Sister Margaret’s loving spirit will never be forgotten. Sending condolences to her family, friends and all who loved her so much!
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