DCHP-3

Indian residential hostel

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a residential boarding house for Eskimos or Indians attending school away from home

See: hostel(def. 1)

Quotations

1965
It is also the site of . . . a federally financed Indian residential hostel, where young Indians and Eskimos who don't speak a word of English come to learn from teachers who don't speak a word of Eskimo or Cree.