S-180 conventionDeclaration detailLevel http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4 Partial Non-IRSSA School Non-Denominational Image: [The Rooms Archives, Item Number **IGA 1-262**](http://gencat.eloquent-systems.com/therooms_permalink.html?key=131186) History: Procter, Andrea. 2020. [A Long Journey: Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland](https://memorialuniversitypress.ca/Books/A/A-Long-Journey). St. John’s: ISER/Memorial University Press. Muddy Bay Public School conventionDeclaration Labrador Public School conventionDeclaration 1920-1928 Muddy Bay, Labrador

School history courtesy of [A Long Journey: Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland](https://memorialuniversitypress.ca/Books/A/A-Long-Journey) *

The Labrador Public School was established at Muddy Bay in 1920 by Rev. Henry Gordon of the Anglican Church. Located about four miles south of Cartwright in central Labrador, it housed mainly Inuit children from small settlements in Groswater Bay, Sandwich Bay, and the Island of Ponds area in southeastern Labrador. In its first years, it served as both a boarding school and an orphanage for the many children who had lost one or both parents in the 1918 Spanish Flu. The International Grenfell Association (IGA), an American and British charity involved in medical and social services in southern Labrador and northern Newfoundland, assumed responsibility for the school’s administration, costs, and staffing in 1922.

Between 30 and 40 children aged six to sixteen lived in the boarding school each year. The British, American, and Canadian teachers and dormitory staff provided educational and social training based on their own cultural assumptions, which included learning British history and table manners, celebrating Empire Day, and performing plays. Local people were hired to cook meals, wash laundry, and mend clothes and sealskin boots for the children and staff. Students were also expected to do chores such as bringing in firewood, doing dishes, and cleaning floors.

The school closed in 1928, after two teenaged boys burned it down. The International Grenfell Association re-built the boarding school near Cartwright in 1930 (see [Lockwood School](/Lockwood-School)). Because the boarding school at Muddy Bay closed before 1949, it was not included in the federal government’s apology to Labrador residential school survivors.

This non-denominational school was closed before Confederation with Canada so not included in Newfoundland and Labrador residential schools Settlement Agreement.

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