DCHP-3

hostel school

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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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
[Coppermine's] federal day school . . . and tent hostel school . . . are attempting to fit Eskimo children into the new way of life that lies ahead of them.
1961
For Ottawa's Indian Affairs branch, they also fly a school-bus service from remote Indian and Eskimo settlements to federal hostel schools, as well as medical missions.