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Indian mission school, File hills Indian Reserve, Sask (1923). Source: Canada. Dept. of Mines and Technical Surveys / Library and Archives Canada / PA-019394.

File Hills (SK)

Dates of Operation
1889 -1949
Description
Presbyterian missionaries established a boarding school in the File Hills of what is now Saskatchewan in 1889. Tuberculosis was a serious problem at the school. A 1907 study showed that of the thirty-one pupils who had been discharged from the File Hills school since it opened, fifteen had been dead at the time of their discharge. In 1942 fire completely destroyed two classrooms. They were not replaced until 1944. Parents lobbied the government to close the school and in 1948 a government inspection concluded the school should be demolished. It was closed in 1949. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)
Denomination
Presbyterian Church, United Church of Canada

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Alternate Name(s)
File Hills Boarding School
File Hills Indian Residential School
File Hills School
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Location
"Point is on the site of the former residential school building. The main school building and other buildings were demolished in the 1950s. The school site is now a subdivision of the Okanese First Nations" (Orlandini, 2019).
Location Credit
Morgan Hite and 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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