IRSHDC : School : Edmonton (AB) [1768]

Edmonton Residential School (c.1916). Source: The United Church of Canada 1986.158P/10; The Children Remembered.

Edmonton (AB)

Dates of Operation

March 1, 1924 - June 30, 1968

Description

The Methodist Church closed its industrial school in Red Deer in 1919 and reopened it five years later in Edmonton, Alberta. By 1930 the school had over 200 residents. During the 1950s students from the Northwest Territories and the Yukon attended the school, while during the 1960s most of the students were from United Church schools in British Columbia who came to Alberta to attend high school. The federal government took over the administration of the school in 1967 and closed it the following year. The school later became the home of the Poundmaker Lodge rehabilitation centre. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Denomination

Methodist Church, United Church of Canada

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Alternate Name(s)

Edmonton Hostel
Edmonton Indian Student Residence
Edmonton Institute
Poundmaker
Red Deer Indian Industrial School
St Albert Indian Residential School
St Albert United
St. Albert Methodist Residential School
St. Albert United

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Map Information

Location

Red Deer location, 1893-1919: "Point is on the site of the Red Deer Industrial School, that was situated in the southeast corner of Section 14 SE, Township 38, Range 28, West of the 4th Meridian. The property is now a privately owned farm. The school buildings were within 100 metres of this point" (Orlandini, 2019).

Edmonton location, 1924-1968: "Point is on the site of the main building of the Edmonton Indian Residential School. The building no longer exists. The property of the school now contains the St. Albert's Catholic Cemetery and Poundmaker's Lodge Treatment Centre" (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]