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The man whose statue a Toronto business association is demanding be moved raised cash to pay the first teacher at a day school for Indigenous children in Sault Ste. Marie nearly 200 years ago.
Alexander Wood, a 19
th century city magistrate, was the treasurer and founding member of Society for Converting and Civilizing the Indians and Propagating the Gospel Among Destitute Settlers in Upper Canada. He held the treasurer’s role for at least seven years.
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St. John’s Missionary to the Ojibway, the first mission school in Sault Ste. Marie, was at the top of Pim Street hill near where Canadian Tire now operates. Students under 13, from Garden River First Nation, would return home at the end of each day, said Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre interim director Krista McCracken.