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Residential Schools Archive

The following list of schools are institutions recognized in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA).

There are some schools that do not contain a list of student names. This means that at present, we have no record of children having died as a result of their time at that school. There is a significant amount of work still to be done to ensure no child is forgotten. If you have any information on a child that did not return home from a school, please contact us at the NCTR.

Select a school below to view the names of the children who died at or went missing from that school.

A National Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support to former students. This 24-Hour Crisis Line can be accessed at: 1-866-925-4419.

Residential School - Lesser Slave Lake, AB (1895 -1932)

Lesser Slave Lake (St. Peter’s)

In 1894 Anglican missionaries opened a boarding school at Lesser Slave Lake, which became known as the St. Peter’s school. …

Residential School - Lower Post, BC (1951 -1975)

Lower Post

The Lower Post school opened in 1951 at Lower Post, British Columbia, just south of the British Columbia-Yukon border. At …

Residential School - The Pas / Dauphin, MB (1914 -1988)

MacKay (Dauphin)

While this school had the same name as the Anglican School in The Pas, it opened 20 years after The …

Residential School - Grayson, SK (1898 -1997)

Marieval (Cowesess)

The Cowessess residential school was constructed in 1899 on the Marieval Reserve in what is now Saskatchewan by Roman Catholic …

Residential School - McIntosh, ON (1925 -1969)

McIntosh (Kenora)

Roman Catholic missionaries founded the McIntosh School with federal government support in 1925 in McIntosh, northwestern Ontario. In 1965, the …

Residential School - Mistassini, QC (1971 -1978)

Mistassini Hostels

The government of Canada opened three hostels in Mistassini, QuĂ©bec, in 1971. Each hostel could house up to twelve students. …

Residential School - Morley, AB (1922 -1969)

Morley (Stony)

From 1880 to 1908, Methodist missionaries operated the McDougall Orphanage and Training Institution on the Stony Reserve near Morley, in …

Residential School - Munceytown, ON (1867 -1946)

Mount Elgin (Muncey)

The Mount Elgin school in Munceytown, in what is now Ontario, was established in 1850. An 1858 government report concluded …

Residential School - Lestock, SK (1889 -1997)

Muscowequan (Touchwood)

In 1886 the Roman Catholic day school on the Muscowequan Reserve in what is now Saskatchewan was enlarged to allow …