Marieval Indian Residential School (IRS) was located in the Qu’Appelle valley, south of Crooked Lake, near the community of Marieval, about 165 km east of Regina and about 85 km south Yorkton. The IRS was operated from 1899 - 1997 (98 years) under Roman Catholic administrative control. The IRS officially closed on June 30, 1997.
Other names identifying the residential school were Crooked Lake Boarding School (1899), Cowessess Boarding School (1909), Cowessess Indian Residential School (1924 - 1968), Cowessess Student Residence (1969), Marieval Student Residence (1969 - 1981), Marieval Community Education Centre & Student Residence (1977), Marieval Community Education Centre (1981 - 1987), Cowessess Community Education Centre (1987), and Cowessess Student Residence (1997).
The Government of Canada was responsible for funding the school. It was managed and operated on behalf of the government by the Roman Catholic Church from 1899 - 1969 through the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, then later the Oblate Indian and Eskimo Commission. The federal government assumed full responsibility for the operation and management of the IRS on April 1, 1969. In April 1987, the Cowessess Indian Band established the Cowessess Board of Education, which assumed responsibility for the IRS’s operation and administration. On March 20, 1911, the federal government and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate signed an agreement for the IRS’s operation and management. On September 25, 1962, the federal government and the Oblate Indian and Eskimo Commission (INDIANESCOM) signed an agreement for the operation and management of the IRS.
Grades taught at the IRS were as follows; 1899 - 1933 primary and elementary 1933 - 1937 primary, elementary, and junior high 1937 - 1939 primary and elementary 1939 - 1940 information missing 1940 - 1975 primary, elementary, and junior high 1975 - 1976 primary, elementary, junior high, and high school 1976 - 1977 information missing 1977 - 1978 primary, elementary, junior high, and high school 1978 - 1987 information missing 1987 - 1988 primary, elementary, junior high, and high school 1988 - 1989 information missing 1989 - 1990 primary, elementary, junior high, and high school 1990 - 1993 information missing 1993 - 1994 primary, elementary, junior high, and high school 1994 - 1997 information missing therefore, 18 years of information out of 98 years of operation is missing, of which the majority (17 years) since 1976.
Student enrolment statistics are available every year from 1899 - 1979 except 1939-1940 (80 years), and statistics for nine years are missing from 1979-1980 to 1996-1997 (18 years) for approximately 90% overall available. Day students also attended the IRS, and student enrolment statistics are available from 1952-1953 to 1971-1973.
1909-05-01
1909-01-01
0000-00-00
1909-01-01
1969-03-20
1980-01-01
1970-03-25
1909-11-08
1898-1935
1898-1935
1898-1935
1898-1935
1898-1935
1898-1935
1898-1935
1898-1935
1941-03-31
1943-09-30
1943-06-30
1943-12-31
1944-03-31
1944-06-30
1944-09-30
1944-12-31
1945-03-31
1945-06-30
1945-09-30
1941-06-30
1945-12-31
1946-12-31
1946-09-30
1946-06-30
1946-03-31
1947-03-31
1947-06-30
1947-09-30
1947-12-31
1948-03-31
1941-09-30
1948-06-30
1948-09-30
1948-12-31
1949-03-31
1949-06-30
1949-09-30
1949-12-31
1950-06-30
1950-09-30
1941-12-30
1950-03-31
1942-03-31
1942-06-30
1942-09-30
1942-12-31
1943-03-31
1936-1940
1936-1940
1903-1934
1903-1934
1903-1934
1903-1934
1903-1934
1903-1934
1903-1934
1922-1952
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1922-1931
1927-1936
1927-1936
1927-1936
1927-1936
1927-1936
1927-1936
1927-1936
1927-1936
1927-1936
1936-1938
1936-1938
1936-1938
1936-1938
1936-1938
1936-1938
1936-1938
1936-1938
1936-1938
1939-1944
1939-1944
1939-1944
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1944-1949
1939-1944
1939-1944
1939-1944
1939-1944
1939-1944
1939-1944
1939-1944
1939-1944
1939-1944
1939-1944
1919 - 1970
1931
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February 1965
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December 1964
November 1964
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1957
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1967
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1962
1932
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July 1957
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March 1970
March 1970
March 1970
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1967
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1967
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1922
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1922
1950
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1932
1933
1975
1940
1932
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1919
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1964
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1967
May 1965
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1965
1948
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April 1957
1946
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December 1965
1932-09-30
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1954
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1960 - 1961
1957
1960 - 1961
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1953 - 1954
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1932 - 1952
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1952-11-10
1932-09-01
1901 - 1987
1987-11-01
1977
1987-11-01
1977
1987-11-01
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1987-11-01
1987-11-01
1987-11-01
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1984
1946-02-11
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July 1966
July 1966
July 1966
November 1964
July 1966
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July 1966
July 1965
1941
1967
November 1931
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June 1989
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1967-10-15
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1955-05-30
1901
1955-04-14
1930
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1904 - 1972
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1904
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1939
1972
Summer 1967
1939
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Summer 1967
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1967-10-13
October 1967
October 1967
1967
1967-10-13
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1967
1967
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1939
1967-10-13
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1910 - 1977
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1910
1976
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1957-11-30
1963
May 1970
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1957
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Winter 1959
1963
October 1967
1976
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1977
1977
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1961-09-24
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October 1967
June 1966
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1902 - 1967
1963 - 1964
1947 - 1948
1946 - 1947
1952 - 1953
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1902
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1901
1967
1967
1920 - 1985
1973
1967
1967
1975
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1981
1930-10-24
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1930-10-24
1920
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1940
1930-10-24
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1939
1950
1951
1942
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1950
1922
1948
1947
1931
August 1962
1922
1954
1967
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July 1956
1948
November 1965
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November 1965
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August 1962
1977
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1967
1979
1977
1977
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1948
1947
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1960
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1976
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1967
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1954 - 1955
1970
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1968
January 1970
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1985
1985
1985
1985
1985
1985
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1948
1954-03-19
1949 - 1950
1954-03-19
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2010 - 2015