Features

Places

The school grounds. school grounds

School description

Excerpted from “Inspector’s Report on the School Plant and Equipment”

Mackay Indian Residential School

Mackay is a new residential school completed and officially opened in the fall of 1957. It has been designed to provide al facilities of a modern residential school to discharge the combined functions of residence, recreation and education. Instruction is given in 6 modern classrooms of the latest design arranged in a lock on the east side of the building. The block uses a centre hall plan with three classrooms in line on each side of the hall. The classrooms are of standard size with a maximum capacity for 40 pupils each (the ideal number would be 32 pupils). All lighting, heating, paintwork are of the latest design.Mackay Indian Residential School layout

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Goals

The goals of the Mackay Residential School Gathering Inc. are:

  • to support and collaborate with residential school survivors in healing journeys;
  • to organize gatherings and activities;
  • to provide a forum for discussion and outreach to the larger community on the topic of residential schools; and
  • to assist where needed with the intergenerational effects.