IRSHDC : School : Crowstand (SK) [18777]

Crowstand (SK)

Dates of Operation

January 28, 1889 - December 1, 1915

Description

The Crowstand school was established near Kamsack, in what is now Saskatchewan, by the Presbyterian Church in 1889. In 1907 it was discovered that, when bringing runaway boys back to the school, the principal tied them together and required them to run behind a horse-drawn buggy. In 1914 the principal failed to take appropriate action when a hired hand was discovered to be having sex with students. In 1914 the department’s medical officer said that it was the worst school he had ever seen, and recommended immediate closure. The school was closed in December 1915. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Denomination

Presbyterian Church

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Alternate Name(s)

Crow Stand Presbyterian Boarding School
Crowstand Boarding School
Crowstand Indian Boarding School
Crowstand Mission School

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Map Information

Location

"Point is on the site of the former residential school property. The exact location of the school buildings is unknown. The school site is now a farmstead" (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]