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Dunbow School (19??). Source: Provincial Archives of Alberta, A4705.

St. Joseph's (AB)

Dates of Operation
October 17, 1884 - December 31, 1922
Description
The Dunbow school in High River, in what is now Alberta, was one of the first three industrial schools established by a partnership between the Canadian government and Canadian churches. Dunbow (also known as St. Joseph’s) was a Roman Catholic school and its first principal was Father Albert Lacombe. Built on the High River, southeast of Calgary in 1884, the school had trouble recruiting and retaining students from the outset. In 1918 the principal and three students died of influenza. In 1922 the school, which had only 26 students at that point, was closed. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)
Denomination
Catholic Church

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Alternate Name(s)
Dunbow
Dunbow Industrial School
High River
High River Industrial School
St. Joseph's Industrial School
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Location
"Point is on the site of the St. Joseph's Residential School. The school was located on the west bank of High River, 1.8km SW of its confluence with the Bow River. The precise location of the buildings are not known, but are within 100 metres of this point" (Orlandini, 2019).
Location Credit
Morgan Hite. 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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