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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.
The last federally-funded residential school closed in 1997, with schools operating across most provinces and territories. [10] Over the course of the system's more than hundred-year existence, around 150,000 children were placed in residential schools nationally.
In 1996, Gordon Student Residence was closed and the main building was razed, making it the last federally-funded residential school in Canada. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] (The last of all residential schools to close in Canada was Grollier Hall in 1997, which was not government-run when it closed.) [ 1 ]
The school system was in effect until 1996, when the last school closed. [20] Canada's residential school system was implemented by the federal government and administered by various churches. [20] Its purpose was to remove Aboriginal children from their homes and reserves, so they could teach them Euro-Canadian and Christian values.
The school’s closing comes in the midst of an ongoing facilities master plan study that is looking at the district’s school building capacity as enrollment declines.
Around the same time, the school acquired more land, and farming became a prominent part of life for children at the school. In 1885, the school began to accept students from reserves beyond Six Nations. [1] On April 19, 1903, the main school building was again destroyed by fire. In May, the barns of the Mohawk School were also destroyed by fire.
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Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.