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St. Mary's Indian Residential School was the name of two Indian residential schools in Mission, British Columbia. The first was operated by the Roman Catholic Church of Canada, and the second was operated by the Canadian federal government. Approximately 2,000 children attended the schools while they were in operation, [1] most of them Stó:lō.
Aklavik Anglican Indian Residential School (All Saints Indian Residential School) Shingle Point: NWT: 1927: 1934 (moved to Aklavik due to overcrowding) AN Baptist Indian Residential School (Yukon Indian Residential School) Whitehorse: YT: 1900: 1968: BP Carcross Indian Residential School (Forty Mile Boarding School) Fortymile: YT: 1891: 1910 ...
As activists, Mary Bibb and her husband, Henry Bibb, initiated various projects to serve and uplift Canada West’s growing Black population, including establishing a school in Sandwich. [15] Mary Bibb established the school in the late winter of 1850, teaching twenty-five day and evening students in her home by January of the following year. [9]
Spanish Indian Residential School for boys, Spanish Ontario, 1913. The Spanish Indian Residential Schools was a set of single-sex Canadian Indian residential schools for First Nations, Métis, and Anishinaabe children that operated in Spanish, Ontario from 1913 to 1965 by the Jesuit Fathers, the Daughters of the Heart of Mary, and the Government of Canada.
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BQFNC was the first Indigenous controlled and operated post secondary educational institution in Canada. [5] The brick school was built in 1931 on Blue Quills First Nation Indian Reserve and operated as a Blue Quills Indian Residential School until 1970. In July 1970 it was taken over by community members through peaceful protest and occupation.
In the Elder Project no. 19, The Rivers Where We Sing, [14] a number of Elders make reference to their experiences as former residential school students. A 1998 film, Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle, explored effects of the institution and healing journeys of survivors twenty years after it closed. [ 15 ]
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada had reported in 2015: "Throughout the history of Canada’s residential school system, there was no effort to record across the entire system the number of students who died while attending the schools each year. The National Residential School Student Death Register, established by the Truth ...