IRSHDC : School : Ermineskin (AB) [18688]

Photographs of School, Students, and Staff (unknown date). Source: Deschâtelets-NDC Archives.

Ermineskin (AB)

Dates of Operation

July 7, 1895 - June 27, 1975

Description

Roman Catholic missionaries established a boarding school just west of Hobbema, in what is now Alberta, in 1894. Ill health and overcrowding were problems in the school’s early years. In 1903, three children died of tuberculosis, while a government survey in the 1920s concluded that fifty per cent of the students at the school were infected with tuberculosis. The federal government assumed complete responsibility for the facility in 1969. The residence closed in the early 1970s, and the educational facilities were transferred to the Ermineskin Band in 1979. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Denomination

Catholic Church

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Alternate Name(s)

Ermineskin Hostel
Ermineskin Indian School
Ermineskin Indian Student Residence
Ermineskin Residence
Ermineskin School
Ermineskin School Residence
Ermineskin Student Residence
Ermineskin's Boarding School
Erministium School
Erminskin
Hobbema
Hobbema Educational Complex
Hobbema Indian Residential School

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Map Information

Location

"Point is on the site of the main building (1956-1968) of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School. The second residential school building (1939-1956) on this property was located at 52.839355000 -113.4593280000. The location of the original school buildings (1898-1939) was 50 metres north of the second location" (Orlandini, 2019).

Location Credit

Morgan Hite and Rosa Orlandini. The school/hostel location data was collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Morgan Hite (Atlas of Indian Residential Schools of Canada), Stephanie Pyne (Residential Schools Land Memory Mapping Project) and Rosa Orlandini (Map and GIS Librarian, York University Libraries). The location data and associated attribute data was enhanced, revised and updated by Rosa Orlandini, in consultation with the Archivists at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

Location Source

Orlandini, Rosa, 2019, "Residential Schools Locations Dataset (Shapefile format)", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/FJG5TG, Borealis, V3, UNF:6:TTc1mMvx2BlBqBgIN05xVw== [fileUNF]