Assumption (Hay Lakes)
The Assumption school opened on the south end of the Hay Lakes reserve, Alberta, in early 1951 under Roman Catholic administration. Following the opening of…
Edmonton (Poundmaker)
The Methodist Church closed its industrial school in Red Deer in 1919 and reopened it five years later in Edmonton, Alberta. By 1930 the school…
Desmarais (St. Martin's)
The Desmarais School opened in what is now Alberta in 1901. The building was replaced in 1930 and again in 1959. Starting in 1962, high…
Crowfoot (St. Joseph's)
Roman Catholic missionaries opened Crowfoot school at Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta in 1900. In 1909 the school (also known as the Blackfoot or St. Joseph’s…
Blue Quills (Sacred Heart)
Roman Catholic missionaries established a boarding school at Lac la Biche in 1891. The school buildings were moved to the Saddle Lake First Nation in…
St. Augustine (Smoky River)
In 1891 a school was established at the St. Augustine Roman Catholic Mission in the Smoky River area of what is now Alberta. By 1900…
St. Albert (Youville)
The St. Albert residential school grew out of a Roman Catholic mission school that had originally been established for Métis children at the Lac…
Sarcee (St. Barnabas)
In 1892, Anglican missionaries opened the Sarcee Boys’ Boarding School (also known as St. Barnabas’s) on the Sarcee Reserve in what is now Alberta…
Sacred Heart (Peigan)
In 1889 the Roman Catholic day school on the Peigan Reserve in present-day Alberta accepted three boarding students. Nine years later a new boarding…
Old Sun (Blackfoot)
The Old Sun Boarding School on the Blackfoot Reserve in Alberta opened in 1886. In 1893, the boys from the school were moved to the…
Morley (Stony)
From 1880 to 1908, Methodist missionaries operated the McDougall Orphanage and Training Institution on the Stony Reserve near Morley, in what is now Alberta. In…
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. Because a large number…
Lac la Biche (Notre Dame des Victoires)
Missionaries established a residential school in Lac la Biche in present-day Alberta in the early 1850s. In 1862 a new school and orphanage opened…
Joussard (St. Bruno's)
The St. Bruno’s boarding school (also known as Joussard) was started by Roman Catholic missionaries in 1913 at Joussard, in what is now Alberta…
Holy Angels (Fort Chipewyan)
The Holy Angels school was founded 1874 at Fort Chipewyan, in what is now Alberta. The school moved to a new school building in 1881…
Grouard (St. Bernard's)
A Roman Catholic mission was established at Grouard, in what is now Alberta in 1872. By 1895 the federal government was funding the Grouard school…
Fort Vermilion (St. Henri)
Roman Catholic missionaries provided educational services at their mission at Fort Vermilion, in what is now Alberta, from 1863 onwards. A residential school was established…
Ermineskin (Maskwacis)
Roman Catholic missionaries established a boarding school just west of Hobbema, in what is now Alberta, in 1894. Ill health and overcrowding were problems in…
Whitefish Lake (St. Andrew's)
The St. Andrew’s Mission School opened in 1903 with ten student boarders at Whitefish Lake, in what is now Alberta. A new building was…
Wabasca (Athabasca Landing)
The Anglican boarding school at Lake Wabasca opened in 1894. The federal government began providing support to the school in 1903. Much of the school…
Sturgeon Lake (Calais)
In 1905 Roman Catholic missionaries opened the small St. François Xavier Boarding school near Calais, Alberta. A new school was constructed in 1910 and…
St. Paul's (Blood)
St. Paul’s residential school opened on Big Island in the Belly River in 1889, south of Cardston. A 1908 federal government report described the…
St. Mary's (Blood)
The Immaculate Conception Boarding School opened in 1898 on the Blood Reserve in what is today Alberta. It was replaced in 1926 with a new…
St. Joseph's (Dunbow)
The Dunbow school in High River, in what is now Alberta, was one of the first three industrial schools established by a partnership between the…
St. Cyprian's (Queen Victoria's Jubilee Home)
In 1890, the Anglican Peigan Mission Home opened at St. Peter’s Mission on the Peigan Reserve in what is now Alberta. In 1897 it…