Ahousat Indian Residential School (IRS) was located on Flores Island on the western shore of Vancouver Island. The IRS operated from 1904 - 1940 (36 years). It officially closed in January 1940.
Other names identifying the residential school include Ahousat School, Ahousat Boarding School, Ahousat Indian School, Ahousat Indian Boarding School, Ahousat United Church Residential School, Ahousat Mission, Ahousat Residential School, and Ahousat Indian Residential School (no dates identified).
The Government of Canada was responsible for funding the school, which was managed and operated by the Presbyterian Church from 1904 - 1926. The IRS’s management and operation were transferred to the United Church through the Women’s Missionary Society from 1926 – 1940 until it officially closed in January 1940. In April 1911, an operational agreement was signed between His Majesty, the King, and the Secretary of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Canada for the management of the Ahousat Boarding School for not more than twenty-five (25) Indian pupils.
No information regarding which grades were taught at the IRS is currently available.
Students from the Ahousat and Ehatishat bands to attend the IRS. Student enrolment at the IRS totalled 1468 based on average estimates per year with a low average of 14 in 1918/19 and a high of 73 in 1938/39 before fire destroyed the IRS, closing down. Average student enrolment from 1904 - 1940 was trending upwards in the later years in three-year increments.
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