La Tuque Indian Residential School (IRS) was located in the community of La Tuque on the shore of Rivière Saint-Maurice north of Trois-Rivières and northwest of Quebec City. The IRS operated from 1963 - 1978 (15 years) under the Anglican Church administration.
Other names identifying the residential school were La Tuque (Indian) Residential School (1963 - 1970) and La Tuque (Indian) Student Residence (1968 - 1978).
The Government of Canada was responsible for funding. It was managed and operated by the Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada from September 1963 - November 1969. The federal government took administrative control on November 13, 1969, until the IRS was closed on June 30, 1978. Effective July 1, 1970, La Tuque IRS became a residence/hostel only.
No information nor documents are available regarding agreements for the operation of the IRS.
Primary and elementary grades and kindergarten were taught at the IRS from 1963/64 to 1969/70.
No information available as to where students were ‘recruited’ to attend the IRS.
Student enrolment statistics at the IRS are available every year it was in operation with a low of 112 students in 1976/77 and a high of 368 students in 1971/72.
In 1962 the federal government and La Tuque Public School Board (La Tuque Board of School Trustees) signed an agreement to construct a joint public school for non-Indigenous and Indigenous students from grades 3 - 11, including residents of La Tuque IRS when it opened in September 1963.
Students from the IRS also attended local schools in the community of La Tuque - La Tuque High School, “Non-Indian Schools,” French Roman Catholic School, La Tuque Protestant Public School, La Tuque French School, Ecole Champagnat, Ecole Central, Ecole Eugene Corbeil, the “High School” for various grades from 1 - 12 in different years.
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