IRSHDC : School : Round Lake (SK) [1975]

Round Lake Indian School, Round Lake Addition (unknown date). Source: National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

Round Lake (SK)

Dates of Operation

1887 -1950

Description

The Round Lake school was started in a one-room log cabin on Round Lake on the Qu’Appelle River in 1884. It was remodeled in 1918, but in 1923 fire destroyed a number of classrooms. Inspection reports from the 1920s indicated the school was unsanitary and poorly heated. In 1935 three boys ran away from Round Lake; two made it home, but one froze to death. In 1949 the barn, a blacksmith shop, and three granaries burned to the ground. The following year, after being condemned by the Saskatchewan fire commissioner, the school was closed. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Denomination

Presbyterian Church, United Church of Canada

More Information

Alternate Name(s)

Round Lake Indian Boarding School
Round Lake Indian Industrial Institution

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Map Information

Location

"Point is on the site of the former residential school building that is no longer present. The principal's house and the original barn remain on the property" (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]