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No title (unknown date). Source: The Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns) of Montreal.

Grollier Hall (NWT)

Dates of Operation
1959 -1997
Description
Grollier Hall was part of a federal plan to establish hostels in larger northern communities. The program was unpopular from the start. In 1959 in the Winnipeg Free Press quoted a former NWT Council member as saying: “[Parents] want their children to go to school. Yet, unless they live in a settlement with a day school, or within five miles of such a settlement, they must allow their children to be taken away from them to one of these big hostels, which can be hundreds of miles away.” Grollier Hall was the site of many acts of sexual and psychological abuse. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)
Denomination
Catholic Church

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Alternate Name(s)
Inuvik Roman Catholic
Inuvik Roman Catholic Residence
Notre-Dame Residence
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Location
"Point is on the site of Grollier Hall. The building was torn down in 1998. It is on the same block as Stringer Hall and the Sir Alexander Mackenzie Federal School (Latitude 68.357371, Longitude -133.719193)" (Orlandini, 2019).
Location Credit
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation 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]

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