St. Albert Indian Residential School (IRS) was located in the community of St. Albert just northwest of Edmonton within the boundaries of Treaty 6. It operated from 1873 - 1948 (75 years).
Other names identifying the residential school include Indian School at St. Albert (1877), the “Asile Youville” (1882), St. Albert Mission School (1885), The School of Industry at St. Albert (1887), The Industrial School at St. Albert (1887), St. Albert Industrial School (1891), St. Albert Orphanage (1894), St. Albert’s School (1895), St. Albert Boarding School (1896), Indian Boarding School at St. Albert (1911), St. Albert Indian Boarding School (1920), St. Albert Indian Residential School (1923), Indian Residential School (1923), and Youville Indian Residential School (1937). As of December 1937, the name of “St. Albert Residential School” was officially changed to “Youville Residential School,” to avoid confusion with the Edmonton Residential School, which was nearby and was sometimes called “St. Albert” also.
The Government of Canada was responsible for funding the school, which was managed and operated by the Grey Nuns of Montreal through the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Edmonton from 1873 - 1948.
In 1911, an agreement regarding the St Albert Boarding School, signed by H. Leduc for Right Rev. Emile J. Legal, OMI, and by Sister M.A. Diquiere. Bishop Legal noted in a letter in July 1911 that the Agreement “would have been better executed in the name of the Rev. Sisters themselves, as they are the owners of the property…..”
Students from the following reserves attended the school: Paul’s band, Alexander’s band, Enoch band, Alexis band, Alexis reserve, Lac-Ste-Anne, Michel band, Michel reserve, Callihoo band.
No information is available to indicate what grades were taught at the school.
Student enrolment statistics are relatively erratic from 1875 - 1914. The quarterly report’s statistics are inconsistent from 1918 - September 1931 and include every quarter from September 1941 - August 1958 with a low enrolment of 52 students in 1887 and a high enrolment of 167 in September 1941.
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