IRSHDC : School : Stirland Lake High School (ON) [18762]

Stirland Lake High School, or Wahbon Bay Academy (unknown date). Source: Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Reclamation & Healing.

Stirland Lake High School (ON)

Dates of Operation

September 1, 1971 - June 30, 1991

Description

Opened in 1971 on remote Stirland Lake in Northwestern Ontario, Stirland Lake Residential School operated as a boys’ school until 1986 when the school merged with the Cristal Lake girls’ school run by the same organization, Northern Youth Programs. In 1987 students staged a protest against what they considered excessively restrictive conditions at the school. After a cooling off period following the protest, a number of students did not return. The school closed in 1991 when Northern Youth Programs decided to withdraw permanently from providing residential schools programs. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Denomination

Mennonite Church

More Information

Alternate Name(s)

Sterling Lake High School
Stirland Lake School
Stirland Lake Student Residence
Wahbon Bay Academy

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Map Information

Location

"Point is on the site of the Stirland Lake High School campus. The Stirland Lake High School was a residential school that was located here from 1971 to 1991. Many of the buildings remain on the site" (Orlandini, 2019).

Location Credit

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. 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]