This building was designed by local architect J. Melrose
Morrison and opened as Wilson School in 1928. It was built of
reinforced concrete with brick trim and contained 16 classrooms,
one "domestic science" room, a large assembly hall, recreation
rooms for boys and girls, lavatories, principal's room, nurses'
room, teachers' room, and kitchen. The building was steam heated
using the first "Uni-Vent" registers in the city. It remained an
elementary school into the 1980s.
It was the Saskatoon campus of the First Nations University of
Canada until May 3, 2010. The campus was closed because of budget
cuts after a period of financial and administrative instability at
the institution. There is discussion that the building we will
either br turned into a Community Centre or possibly torn down for
future commercial development.
