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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 - Coppermine, NU (1951 -1959)

Federal Tent Hostel at Coppermine

The Coppermine Tent Hostel opened in 1955 in what is now Nunavut. Students lived in wood-framed field tents and attended …

Residential School - Balcarres, SK (1889 -1949)

File Hills

Presbyterian missionaries established a boarding school in the File Hills of what is now Saskatchewan in 1889. Tuberculosis was a …

Residential School - Fort Alexander, MB (1905 -1970)

Fort Alexander (Pine Falls)

The Fort Alexander School was built on land on the Fort Alexander Reserve (now the Sagkeeng First Nation) in southeastern …

Residential School - Fort Frances, ON (1906 -1974)

Fort Frances (Couchiching)

The Fort Frances School (also known as St. Margaret’s), on the southwest shore of Rainy Lake in northwestern Ontario, opened …

Residential School - Fort George, QC (1975 -1978)

Fort George Hostels

With the closing of St. Philip’s Residential School in Fort George in June of 1975, some of its former students …

Residential School - Fort Pelly, SK (1905 -1913)

Fort Pelly (St. Philip’s)

The Oblate Fathers erected the Fort Pelly school buildings at their own expense in the early 1900s, and Canada began …