IRSHDC : School : Chapleau (ON) [18750]

P75-103 - MSCC - St. John's School, Chapleau (1940s). Source: The General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada.

Chapleau (ON)

Dates of Operation

January 1, 1907 - July 31, 1948

Description

The Chapleau residential school operated from 1907 to 1919 north of the town of Chapleau, ON. In 1920, a new school opened at a site south of Chapleau. In 1908, an Indian Affairs inspector said that seven of thirty-one children at the school had died in a three-month period, and parents temporarily stopped sending their children to the school. Thirteen years later, parents hired a lawyer stating that students were being cruelly treated. The school was damaged by a fire in 1944, and three years later a second fire caused further damage. The school closed in 1948. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Denomination

Anglican Church of Canada

More Information

Alternate Name(s)

Chapleau Boarding School
Chapleau Industrial School
St. John's
St. John's Boarding School
St. John's Indian Residential School
St. John's School Chapleau

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Map Information

Location

First location, 1907-1920: "Point is on the approximate site of the first location of the Chapleau (St. John's) Residential School. The building is located within 50 metres of this point. The school was on the east of Chapleau on the east side of Nebskwashi River" (Orlandini, 2019).

Second location, 1920-1948: "Point is on the site of the second location of the Chapleau Residential School. The building opened in 1920 and the school closed in 1948. The building was torn down in the early 1950s" (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]