Item R00011321 - School Land (Maps, Plan, Quit Claim)

Gordon’s Indian Residential School (IRS) was located within Treaty 4, on the Gordon Reserve west side, six miles south of the Town of Punnichy and eighty miles north of Regina. It operated from 1888 - 1996 (108 years) under the Anglican Church administration.

Other names identifying the residential school include Gordon School (1886), Gordon Boarding School (1889), Gordon’s Indian School (1893), Gordon’s Indian Residential School (1926), and Gordon’s Student Residence (1969).

The Government of Canada was responsible for its funding, which was managed and operated by the Anglican Church of Canada, under the auspices of the Bishop of Qu’Appelle, 1888 - 1946. The school was managed by the Indian & Eskimo Welfare Commission and later, by the Indian School Commission, of the Anglican Church of Canada from 1946 - 1969. The federal government assumed administrative control from April 1, 1969, until its closure in 1996. In 1911, an Operational Agreement between the Bishop of the Diocese of Qu’Appelle and the Government of Canada for the operation and management of the school was signed. In 1962, an Operational Agreement between the Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Government of Canada for the operation and management of the school.

No information is available regarding which grades were taught at the school.

Students came from various communities, including between 1888 - 1928 Day Star, Fishing Lake, James Smith, John Smith, Key, Northwest Territories, Nut Lake, Piapot, Sturgeon Lake, Poorman, Yellow Quilt, Keys, Keesekoose, Muscowequan. Between1929 - 1942 Day Star, Fishing Lake, James Smith, John Smith, Key, Nut Lake, Poorman, Northwest Territories, Sturgeon Lake, Piapot. Between 1948 - 1960 Peepeekeesis, James Smith, Ochapawace, One Arrow, Kahkewhistehew, Battleford, Keesekose, Leask, Key, Split Lake, Poorman, Mistawasis, Pelly, Cote, Fishing Lake, Poundmaker, Whitecap Sioux, Splitriver, York Factory, Carry the Kettle, Sweet Grass. Between 1961 - 1967 Wesley, Chiniquay, Bearspaw, Peepeekesis, Cowessess, Ochopowace, Kahkewhistehew, Carry the Kettle, Sakimay, James Smith, Sweet Grass, Poundmaker, Split Lake, Mistawasis, Whitecap Sioux, Fishing Lake, Key, One Arrow, Cote, Kahkewhistehew, York Factory, Keeseekoose, Churchill, The Pas, Shamattawa, Lac La Ronge, Peter Ballantyne, Jos Bighead, Okaneses, Island Lake, White Bear, Little Black Bear, Non-Treaty, Red Earth, Moose Woods, File Hills, Fox Lake, Shoal Lake, Day Star, Little Pine,
Little Red River, Loon Lake, Montreal Lake, Poorman, Sturgeon Lake, Thunderchild,
Sandy Lake, Muskowequan, Muscopetung. Between 1968 - 1975 Carry the Kettle, Cote, Day Star, Fishing Lake, James Smith, Kahkewhistehew, Keseekoose, Kinistino, Lac La Ronge, Little Pine, Little Red River, Little Black Bear, Maple Creek, Mistawasis, Montreal Lake, Muscopetung, Muscowequan, Non-Treaty, Ochapowace, Okanase, Pasqua, Peepeekisis, Peguis, Piapot, Poorman, Sakimay, Standing Buffalo, Star Blanket, Thunderchild, and White Bear

No information is available regarding student enrolment statistics.