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No title (unknown date). Source: The Sisters of the Presentation of Mary.

St. Michael's (SK)

Dates of Operation
August, 1894 - June 30, 1996
Description
In 1894 Roman Catholic missionaries established the Duck Lake boarding school north of Saskatoon in what is now Saskatchewan. In the school’s early years, tuberculosis was epidemic. In 1910 an Indian agent estimated that fifty per cent of the children sent to the school had died. A new school, which later became known as St. Michael’s, was constructed in 1949. During the 1950s, when the school’s maximum enrollment was supposed to be 220, it was often closer to 260. In 1969 the federal government took over the administration of the school. In 1982, the school was turned over to the Saskatoon District Tribal Council. It was closed in 1996. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)
Denomination
Catholic Church

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Alternate Name(s)
Duck Lake
St. Michael
St. Michael's Indian Residential School
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Location
"Point is on the site of the main school building of St. Michael's Indian Residential School (Duck Lake) that was built in 1925 and closed in 1996. The original school building, 1894-1925, was located about 1 km west, along the road of the south half of the SW Quarter, Section 4, Township 44, Range 2, W3M" (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]

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