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File Hills Residential School

• File Hills Indian Residential School
• File Hills Boarding School
• File Hills School

1889–1949

The residential school was preceded by a small day school, opened by J.C. Richardson in 1884 on the Little Black Bear Reserve and closed soon afterwards. In 1886, R. Toms reopened the day school and it operated until 1889, when the Woman's Missionary Society with the support of the Foreign Mission Committee of The Presbyterian Church in Canada and the Department of Indian Affairs built a new school just outside of the reserve’s boundaries. This was operated by The Presbyterian Church until 1924 when its operation was transferred to the United Church of Canada who managed it until its closure in 1949.

Located approximately 14 kilometres north of Balcarres, Saskatchewan, and 100 kilometres northeast of Regina, just outside the boundaries of the Okanese reserve adjacent to the File Hills Agency, Treaty Number 4.

Administered by the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (until 1925) and then of the United Church of Canada (1925-1949).

Drake, Ida Mabel (1910–1998)

File Hills Colony (ca.1898–19?)

Simes, Austin B. (Dr.) ([1930-1960])

Fort Qu'Appelle Indian [Indigenous] Hospital (1936-1996)

Department of Indian Affairs

SCAA-UCCS-0156

United Church of Canada Living Skies Region Archives

SCNUCSC

Klad

2018-March: drafted for SAIN.
2021-2022: revised in MemorySask.

• Engels

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Archives (https://nctr.ca); United Church of Canada, File Hills Indian Residential School, on The Children Remembered website (http://thechildrenremembered.ca/); United Church of Canada Archives (Toronto), General Council Archives Guide to Holdings Related to Residential Schools (2016); UCC Archives authority record, File Hills Residential School (https://catalogue.unitedchurcharchives.ca/file-hills-residential-school-balcarres-sask), accessed Nov.2022.