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in 1937 and were found dead, frozen on a lake shortly thereafter. Allen Willie (age 8), Andrew Paul (age 9), Maurice Justin (age 8), and Johnny Michael (age 9) had fled the school "without caps and lightly clad" and had covered six of the seven miles to Nadleh reserve before succumbing to the cold.
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charged a former dormitory supervisor with 10 counts of indecent assault, three of gross indecency, two of buggery, and six counts of common assault, for incidents that allegedly took place at the Lejac School and at the
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country, the majority of students were Carrier; however, Lejac also enrolled substantial numbers of students from neighbouring tribes, including the
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Canada's Residential Schools: The History, Part 2, 1939 to 2000: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 1
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and the school buildings razed. What remains at the site are the cemetery and a memorial, the site of an annual pilgrimage in honor of
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As with most other residential schools, former students have charged that they were physically and sexually abused. In 2003, the
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territory). Although there were a few lay employees, most of the staff belonged to the Catholic Church, the men to the
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Marcel Gagnon Indigenous musician pays tribute to the story of deceased boys on his CBC album, New Years Day
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Construction of the school was completed on 17 January 1922, succeeding the school that opened in 1917 in
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territory) and the village of Nadleh at the east end of the lake (on
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After the school closed in 1976 the land was transferred to the
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015).
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They Call Me Father: Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola
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They Call Me Father: Memoirs of Father Nicola Coccola
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Index


Canadian residential school
British Columbia
Roman Catholic Church
Government of Canada
Fort Saint James
Fraser Lake
Fraser Lake
Stellat'en First Nation
Nadleh Whut'en First Nation
Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Sisters of the Child Jesus
Jean-Marie Lejacq
Carrier
Sekani
Gitksan
RCMP
Cariboo-St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School
Williams Lake
BC
Nadleh Indian Band
Rose Prince
Canadian Indian Residential Schools
New Year's Day
Coccola, Father Nicolas
Bridget Moran
Arsenal Pulp Press
ISBN
1-55152-047-8
Yinka Dene Language Institute

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