File Hills Colony

Identity area

Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

File Hills Colony

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

ca.1898–19?

History

Established by the local Indian Agent (W.M. Graham), on Peepeekisis Reserve lands, the File Hills Colony was set up to be a farming colony that would continue the assimilation of Indigenous graduates of Industrial (Residential) Schools.

Places

Peepeekisis First Nation [reserve], File Hills Agency, Treaty Number 4.

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Related entity

File Hills Pastoral Charge (1925–1969?, ca.1980–)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0165

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

Related entity

File Hills Residential School (1889–1949)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0156

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

Colony settled by selected graduates.

Related entity

Qu'Appelle Residential School

Identifier of related entity

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

Colony settled by selected graduates.

Related entity

Graham, W.M. (1867-1940)

Identifier of related entity

Category of relationship

hierarchical

Type of relationship

Graham, W.M.

controls

File Hills Colony

Dates of relationship

ca.1898-1932?

Description of relationship

William Morris Graham (Indian Agent) established the Colony, ca.1898.

Related entity

Department of Indian Affairs

Identifier of related entity

Category of relationship

hierarchical

Type of relationship

Department of Indian Affairs

controls

File Hills Colony

Dates of relationship

1898–19?

Description of relationship

Access points area

Subject access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

SCAA-UCCS-0310

Institution identifier

SCNUCSC

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Partial

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

2022: drafted by UCC Living Skies Region Archives

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

File Hills Colony: A Failed Experiment, in Shattering the Silence: The Hidden History of Residential Schools in Saskatchewan, University of Regina (https://www2.uregina.ca/education/saskindianresidentialschools/), accessed Nov.2022.
File Hills Indian Residential School, on The Children Remembered, United Church of Canada (http://thechildrenremembered.ca/).
Ottawa apology for colony scheme a step toward mending divide in Peepeekisis Cree Nation, CBC News, Aug 06, 2022 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/file-hills-colony-scheme-apology-peepeekisis-cree-nation-divide-1.6541570), accessed Nov. 2022.
C. Drew Bednasek, Remembering the File Hills Farm Colony, Historical Geography Volume 37 (2009): 53-70.

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