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Not as envisioned: Gordon’s Indian Residential School
A quarter century ago, Gordon’s Indian Residential School was the last in Canada to close its doors
Staff and students of Gordon’s Indian Residential School on the front steps of the school building in October 1953.
January 14, 2021
Nestled in the rolling aspen parklands of the Touchwood Hills, George Gordon First Nation is about 10 kilometres south of Punnichy, Sask., in Treaty 4 territory. The community was originally founded by Chief Ka-nēwo-kwaskwatēw (George Gordon) and our late great-great-grandfather, Askenootow (Charles Pratt) who in the 1850s worked for the Anglican Church Mission Society as a lay reader, catechist and school teacher. Pratt built the first day school there in the early 1870s; it was later incorporated into the reserve in 1876. In 1888, this day school became Gordon’s Indian Residential School the longest-running residential school in Canada. In 1996, 25 years ago, it was t