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The Shubenacadie Indian Residential School operated as part of Canadian Indian residential school system in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia between 1930 and 1967. [1]: 357 It was the only one in the Maritimes. [2] The schools were funded by the federal Department of Indian Affairs.
Shubenacadie (/ ˌ ʃ uː b ə ˈ n æ k ə d i / SHOO-bə-NAK-ə-dee) is a village located in Hants County, in central Nova Scotia, Canada.As of 2021, the population was 411. The name for the Mi'kmaw territory in which present-day Shubenacadie is located and the origin of its name is the Mi'kmaw word Sipekne'katik, which "place abounding in groundnuts" or "place where the wapato grows."
In 1945, when Bernard was nine years old, her mother was told that if she did not sign the consent forms to send her children to a residential school, the child welfare system would take her children into "protective custody." As a result, Bernard attended the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School for five years. [2]
Shubenacadie Nova Scotia—a member of Sipekneꞌkatik First Nation, a curator with the Nova Scotia Museum, and an associate professor from Saint Mary's University investigated the site of the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.
Shubenacadie 45°05′49″N 63°24′25″W / 45.096934°N 63.406806°W / 45.096934; -63. Site of the only residential school in the Maritimes, where the federal government, churches and religious organizations worked to assimilate Native American children
Hay River Indian Residential School (St. Peter's Mission Indian Residential School) Hay River: NWT: 1898: 1949: AN Akaitcho Hall (dormitory for Sir John Franklin High School) Yellowknife: NWT: 1958: 1994: Federal/GNWT Shubenacadie Indian Residential School: Shubenacadie: NS: 1922: 1968: RC Chesterfield Inlet Indian Residential School (including ...
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. [b] The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches.
Shubenacadie Residential School. When Basque was 13, her father sent her to study at a residential school. [3] She then attended the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School from 1930 to 1932, years that she later characterized as "wasted". [2] She entered the school to begin grade 8 but was still in the same grade two years later when she left. [4]