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Cariboo school opened

1891
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St. Joseph's (BC) (Contributor)
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1891: Opened by Catholic Missionaries as Williams Lake Industrial School.

1902: Nine boys ran away from the school. One boy died of exposure.

1920: Nine boys ate poisonous water hemlock, in what parents believed to be a response to discipline at the school, one of these boys died.

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