According to an internal government document at the time, “the department had not received any complaints relating to sexual or other abuse” during the time that Starr was employed at the residence. 293 He was arrested on March 5, 1992, on twelve charges relating to sexual and child abuse, all arising from the years that he worked at the Gordon Residence. Those who refused to participate were punished through the denial of privileges. He instituted a system of bribery and intimidation to establish a regime under which he could sexually assault students. Throughout his time at the school, Starr had been using his position to sexually exploit students. At the final meeting of the Gordon Student Residence Advisory Board, he was thanked by the chair of the board for “his many years of hard work.” He, in turn, thanked the board for its “moral support.” 292 The school also had a highly regarded boxing team. The Gordon Dancers, for example, travelled across Europe. Under his leadership the Cadets did remarkably well at the Annual Inspection in Strathmore and his gymnasium team goes all over the country putting on demonstrations.” 290 Later that year, it was thought that it “might be a good move to make him vice-Principal or Assistant Principal when a new man is appointed.” 291 Under Starr’s administration at Gordon’s, the residence became well known for its cultural and sporting organizations. Pugh, the Bishop and the Cadet authorities. An Anglican assessment of his work from early 1954 noted, “Nothing but good reports of this worker from Mr. 289 During his residential school career, Starr collected numerous positive evaluations. Pugh, the conflict centred on the activities of the “gymnasium tumbling team he had been training.” The conflict was resolved by transferring Starr to another school. According to a letter from Indian Affairs official W. He left the school after an unidentified conflict arose between him and the senior boys. 288 In 1956, he had worked as a physical training instructor at the Gleichen school in southwestern Alberta. 287 Starr had previously been the principal of the Anglican school at Fort George in Québec, and on the staff of the Anglican school in Cardston, Alberta. In 1968, William Peniston Starr was appointed director of the Gordon Residence. Later, the principal is Instructed to uphold Agent’s ruling. Agent is told that it is not his place to be involved in punishments. The agent tried to punish two girls, Nora Cyr and Jane Bird, by extending their residence at school by 6 months. Punishment: extended residence for running away May 1923 Seven girls ran away from school.
Whole school down with influenza The whole school down with influenza 1918 “Expulsion from the School under the circumstances would have been a reward rather than a punishment and would have been a suggestion to others who wanted to leave school to try a similar course.” Student who struck principal on head went to Regina Gaol for one month, as an example to other students. Student strikes principal on head with a boardġ7-year old Percy Crane, a student, struck Principal Atwater on the head with a board partially stunning him… But the following document is in June that year, and does not mention the incident.Īn account of the drowning deaths of Myrtle Jane Moostos and Margaret Bruce in 1947Īcting Principal Wickenden’s account of the drowning deaths of Myrtle Jane Moostos and Margaret Bruce (1947) Missing files? Serious case of immorality reported to the police, April 28, 1922. …Saskatchewan was recovering Wednesday from the fierce blizzard that swept the prairies Monday, but the mercury had skidded far down the tube to the lowest point in weeks. Gordon started out to search for the boy Tuesday morning, and in the afternoon found the frozen body in the woods a mile from home and seven miles from the school.” “Neither young Gordon’s parents nor police knew of his disappearance from school until visitors brought news to Mr. Leaderpost, Regina, Wednesday March 15, 1939: Article regarding freezing death of Andrew Gordon. The school was destroyed by fire on Februand reopened in 1930.Īn account of the freezing death of Andrew Gordon The Anglican Church continued to provide chaplaincy into the 1990s.
Gordon’s was later managed by the Indian and Eskimo Welfare Commission from 1946 to 1969, and by the Government of Canada from 1969 until its closure in 1996. Settee “a pure Indian, who is a clergyman of C.E.” Indian Affairs Annual Report, 1880 ), and expanded for boarders in 1888. who went to the Pas in 1880 and was replaced by Mr. It was located on the boundary of George Gordon Reserve (Treaty 4) as a Day School in 1876 (established by Rev. The Gordon’s Indian Residential School (1888-1996) was managed by the Anglican Church of Canada from 1876 to 1946.
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