IRSHDC : School : Whitefish Lake (AB) [18703]

P7538 - MSCC - Whitefish Lake School - St. Andrew's Mission, Grouard, Alberta (1920s). Source: The General Synod Archive, Anglican Church of Canada.

Whitefish Lake (AB)

Dates of Operation

September 1, 1908 - June 30, 1950

Description

The St. Andrew’s Mission School opened in 1903 with ten student boarders at Whitefish Lake, in what is now Alberta. A new building was built three years later and in 1908 the federal government recognized Whitefish Lake as a boarding school and began funding it. The school enrollment increased when the St. Peter’s Anglican School was closed in 1932 and when the Gift Lake Métis Settlement was created in 1938. In 1950 the residential school was closed and replaced with a church-run day school. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Denomination

Anglican Church of Canada

More Information

Alternate Name(s)

Atikameg
Atikameg Mission School
St. Andrew's
St. Andrew's Indian Boarding School
St. Andrew's Indian Residential School
St. Andrew's Mission Boarding School
Whitefish Lake Anglican Residential School
Whitefish Lake Indian Boarding School

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Map Information

Location

"Point is on the site of the Whitefish Lake Indian Residential School grounds, which was in lot 4 of the Atikameg Settlement. The site is located between Imugumuk road and the shoreline. None of the original buildings remain on the property. There is a cemetery located on the west side of Imugumuk road" (Orlandini, 2019).

Location Credit

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]