The Assiniboia school was the first residential high school in Manitoba. Stitching together memories with a socio-historical reconstruction of the school and its position in both Winnipeg and the larger residential school system, this book offers a glimpse of Assiniboia that is not available in the archival records.
The Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group is a non-profit organization with a mandate to: honour the legacy of the Assiniboia Residential School through commemorative and educational activities; promote positive and reconciliatory relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people; foster awareness, understanding and healing; feature cultural and language as interpreted and presented by the survivors of the Residential school.
Andrew Woolford is professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba and the author of This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in the United States and Canada.