Prompted by the discovery of 215 undocumented graves at the Kamloops (St. Louis) Indian Residential School on May 27, 2021, the information below was initially taken from the records compiled by the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation. Some corrections have been made, and additional information added.

    The school at Lower Post, BC, is included here because it was built specifically for students from the Yukon Territory (as well as northern BC).

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Shingle Point

• Located on the Arctic coast

• Operated by the Anglican Church from September 16, 1929 until August 31, 1936.

• When it and the residential school at Hay River, NWT, were closed, students were transferred to the new All Saints School in Aklavik, NWT.

• Recorded deaths:
  * Mabel Martin, died January 26, 1936

St. Paul's Hostel

• Located in Dawson City

• Operated by the Anglican Church from September 21, 1920 until June 30, 1943.

• St Paul's Hostel opened as a residence for non-Native children attending the Dawson City public school (read a newspaper article about the opening here). The hostel filled quickly and an addition was soon constructed. The operation eventually moved to the former Good Samaritan hospital. An ever-increasing number of First Nations students became residents, and by the early 1940s Canada was refusing to provide support for non-treaty students. In 1943 the Yukon government took over the funding of the facility.

• Recorded deaths (in chronological order):
  * Mabel Van Gorder, died September 21, 1923
  * Maggie Mcdonald, died October 10, 1931
  * Fred Watt, died April 9, 1932
  * Lena Lord, died April 16, 1932
  * Jean-Marie Gazayoue, died June 10, 1932
  * Mary Blanchard, died November 12, 1938 (see note)

Whitehorse Baptist (Whitehorse Indian Mission; Lee School)

• Located in Whitehorse

• Operated by the Baptist Church from September 1, 1947 until 1962.

• The Rev. Harold Lee and his wife Lydia of the Alaska-based Baptist Evangelization Society founded the Whitehorse Indian Baptist Mission day school in 1947. A student residence in an army-surplus building was added later that year. Indian Affairs provided funding for salaries and school supplies along with a per student payment. A 1956 Indian Affairs report found the residence "very unsatisfactory." When the building was condemned in 1960, the federal government stopped funding the school, but it remained in operation until 1962.

• Recorded deaths:
  * Donald Miller, died February 22, 1951

Coudert Hall (Whitehorse Hostel)

• Located in Whitehorse

• Operated by the Roman Catholic Church from September 15, 1960 until June 30, 1971.

• Built for for students attending the Christ the King Catholic School. In 1966, the hostel was renamed Coudert Hall. The residence had a capacity of 100, but the number of students in residence fluctuated between 35 and 70. In 1970, Coudert Hall was merged with the Protestant Yukon Hall, and students were relocated to Yukon Hall in 1971. Coudert Hall was repurposed as a staff residence.

• Recorded deaths:
  * None

Yukon Hall

• Located in Whitehorse

• Operated by the federal government from 1960 until 1985.

• Although non-denominational, the residence was intended to house students from Protestant families, and chaplains were provided for the facility. By 1963 the hostel was providing accommodation for non-Aboriginal students when space was available. In 1970, Yukon Hall was combined administratively with the neighbouring Roman Catholic residence, Coudert Hall, creating the "Whitehorse Student Residence."

• Recorded deaths:
  * None

Carcross (Choutla School)

• Located at Carcross

• Operated by the Anglican Church from September 1, 1903 until June 30, 1969.

• In 1903 students from the school at Forty Mile, Yukon, were moved to a small school in Carcross. In 1911 the federal government built the Choutla school. The school had a reputation for poor health, harsh discipline, poor food, and unpleasant living quarters. In the 1940s, the principal admitted to strapping students so severely that they had to be held down. The school burned down in 1939 and was rebuilt in 1944. A new school was built in 1953-54. It closed in 1969. See more information and photos on our main Choutla School page.

• Recorded deaths (in chronological order):
  * Mollie Dickson, died 1906
  * Eunice ?, died September 1, 1913
  * Ada Roberts, died January 8, 1916
  * Paul Peter Mcginty, died March 25, 1920
  * Cora Drugan, died ca. 1921
  * Joshua Moses, died on either December 19, 1922 or December 1, 1923
  * Sarah Tetlechi, died May 1, 1924
  * Bella Daniel, died sometime in 1924 or 1925
  * Elizabeth Kwatlatyi, died sometime in 1924 or 1925
  * Albert Tom, died ca. 1929
  * Martha Mcleod, died May 10, 1929
  * Charlie Johnson, died January 16, 1931
  * Susie Anderson, died May 10, 1931
  * Albert Jackson, died September 14, 1942
  * Sarah Moses, died December 5, 1945
  * Douglas Hall, died April 28, 1946
  * Caroline Moses, died September 5, 1946
  * Clara Moses, died June 27, 1950
  * Bertha Jimmy, died May 7, 1953
  * John Lucas, died April 16, 1958
  * Daniel Kangetok, died February 1971 (doubtful: see note)

Lower Post

• Located in Lower Post, BC

• Operated by the Roman Catholic Church from September 1, 1951 until June 30, 1975.

• It was built largely for Catholic Aboriginal students from the Yukon and northern BC. The facilities were expanded in 1954 and 1960. The federal government took over the school in 1969 and closed it in 1975.

• Recorded deaths:
  * Hughie Johnson, died January 1, 1957

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Notes on Student Deaths

Mary Blanchard, the fourteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Blanchard of Upper Yukon passed away in St. Mary's Hospital last Thursday [November 17]. She had been an inmate of the hostel for some years and of the hospital for one year. (The Whitehorse Star, November 25, 1938)

"Daniel Kangetok, age 4, was infected with an untreatable virus as part of a Defense Research Board experimental program funded by the Canadian military. He was left to die at the Carcross Anglican residential school in the Yukon, in February of 1971." (Reported by Russ Letica in a list on Facebook on May 31, 2021, but copied directly from this page from 2015 - the school had been closed for 2 years by the time of this alleged death)