Identity area
Type of entity
School
Authorized form of name
Sacred Heart Residential School (Providence Mission)
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Fort Providence
- Providence Mission Roman Catholic Residential School
- Fort Providence Residential School
- Providence Indian Residential School
- Providence Mission Indian Residential School
- Providence Boarding School
- Our Lady of Providence Convent
- Sacred Heart Residential School
- Sacred Heart Hospital
- Sacred Heart Convent
- Sacred Heart Boarding School
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Description area
Dates of existence
1906-09-01 - 1960-06-30
History
Opened in 1867, the Sacred Heart School at Fort Providence was the first residential school in the Canadian north. Life at the school in its early years was hard: in one year there was no meat, flour, potatoes, butter or grease. The original log structure was expanded in 1912. A new three-story school was built in the 1930s. Through most its history there were 65 to 75 students enrolled in the school, but in the 1950s enrolment was around 100. The school closed in 1960.
Places
Fort Providence, Northwest Territories
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Related entity
Roman Catholic Diocese of MacKenzie-Fort Smith (1901 - present)
Identifier of the related entity
R-077
Category of the relationship
associative
Dates of the relationship
1906-1960
Description of relationship
Sacred Heart Residential School Providence Mission was located within the boundaries of the Roman Catholic Diocese of MacKenzie-Fort Smith.
Access points area
Subject access points
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Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
S-009
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Minimal