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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a residential boarding house for Eskimos or Indians attending school away from home.
Quotations
1958
Last January we opened a new school and hostel at Fort Smith. Construction is now underway at the new town of Aklavik of a school and hostel which will be opened sometime next year.
1965
At Fort George . . . there is an Anglican hostel and federal school. . . .
2n.
a boarding school operated or subsidized by the federal government to accommodate students, especially Indians and Eskimos, attending classes at a considerable distance from their homes.
Quotations
1958
Schools are now being built throughout the north, and hostels for children to live in who cannot go to day school near their own homes.
1964
As well as the children at the school, others at . . . a government hostel in Whitehorse will receive gifts.