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The following is a list of schools that operated as part of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [nb 1] [1] [2] The first opened in 1828, and the last closed in 1997.
Old Sun (Blackfoot) Indian Residential School and Crowfoot Indian Residential School near Gleichen – search led by Siksika Nation using GPR in collaboration with the Institute for Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta. [149] Site clean-up began in early August 2021, and a community info session was held in September ...
The Qu'Appelle Indian Industrial School in Lebret, Assiniboia, North-West Territories, c. 1885 Study period at a Roman Catholic Indian Residential School in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories. The Canadian Indian residential school system [a] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples.
The Grouard Indian Residential School, also known as St. Bernard’s Residential School, in the then-hamlet of Grouard is included on the online Memorial site maintained by the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTRC) and UNESCO. [20] The residential school was operated by the Roman Catholic Church from 1894 until 1957. [20]
Later, the school became a federally mandated residential school named St. Mary's. Closed in 1984, it was the last residential school in British Columbia. It is now a cultural centre operated by the Sto:lo people. [83] There an operating OMI cemetery on site with graves of priests and nuns dating back to at least 1880.
Assumption Indian Residential School (also called the Hay Lakes Residential School) was a part of the Canadian Indian Residential School System in Northwestern Alberta, Canada. The school was operated on the south end of the Hay Lakes reserve by the United Church of Canada and the Roman Catholic Church between 1951 and 1974. [1]
The university is not provincially chartered, unlike all other universities in Alberta but instead incorporated by federal statute. [1] The institution was founded as an Indian residential school in the 1930s before being occupied by a protest movement in 1970 and then transferred to indigenous control in 1971. [2]
The main campus building was used as a Residential School for Blackfoot children from 1929-1971. From 1971–1976, the College was operated as a campus of Mount Royal College . In 1978, Old Sun Community College became an independent institution operated by the Blackfoot Band.