Built in 1916, the
Former Portage la Prairie Indian Residential
School
is
the oldest existing example in Manitoba of a system of boarding
schools for Aboriginal children which was created across Canada
between 1883-1960.
Work is underway to turn this former residential school in
Portage la Prairie into a museum chronicling the impact of
residential schools on Canada's aboriginal people.
The Indian Residential School Museum of Canada is slated to
officially open on June 21, 2008.
The Portage school is a good example of prevailing ideas concerning
residential school design and still maintains its original
quality.
A
monument to residential school survivors was erected last December
and features an eagle perched on a 27 1/2-metre steel replica of a
spruce tree.
Cache is now a 35mm film cannister and only has room for a log
book. Please bring your own pencil.
.