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News & Updates

A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.

Parks Canada to install plaque at Old Government House site about residential school history

March 5, 2024

The Town of Battleford council has given its consent to a request from Parks Canada to have a plaque installed at the site of the former Old Government House, south of Battleford, to identify it as the former site of the Battleford Industrial School, a residential school that operated from 1883-1914…

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