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Photograph, 1952
Photograph, 1952

Cultural and sports programs

1950
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By the 1950s the school offered a full program of Euro-Canadian extra-curricular cultural activities and sports. Fife and drum bands were active, there was a Cadet Corps, and drama productions were undertaken. Softball, hockey, and soccer were played. These programs served the schools’ larger goal of assimilating Indigenous children into settler society. Indigenous cultural activities and languages were not offered.

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