It’s just so miserable out there. You never get to see your parents. Sometimes I have to stay at the at the residential for I say maybe, sometimes for two three weeks there, nobody’s around
It now is a place of learning, so it is teaching people to have good lives. In that way all that ugliness will not win, the evil the was there
Of course, there were many rules. We learned from the others, or we learn by the mistakes that we made, while we were there, and we got punished. I don’t know if the students that were there already, who knew the rules already, might have enjoyed watching us suffer being punished because we didn’t know the rules… but, we weren’t, the rules weren’t shared.
I was sent away to go to Blue Quills school, and I was just a little kid, five years old. So, I had to go stay in the school and I was ahead of some of my classmates because I knew how to write, this and that, and I had learned English at the Charles Camsell Hospital.
Not in public but they had the classroom doors open, they had a stool they’re out in the hallway and they put me there and they gave it to me. They had the doors open so other students can hear me cry out.
Things like that happened all… just anytime…
There was a big room like this with cots and we each had our own little cot, and at nights, some nights there’ll be full moon. So I used to go to the window and look at the moon, and I talk to the moon. I used to ask the moon, “if you’re, if you are shining on my parents? Are you the same moon, shining on my parents?”
They said they told us to fold up our clothes and tie them with a belt, and from the fire escape to throw them right to the ground floor, and there, when it was time, we followed the older boys.
The Fourth Floor/Attic of Poundmaker’s Lodge Carriage House. This Space Originally Served as a Dormitory and Infirmary for the Edmonton Indian Residential School. It is Notable for the Large Amount of Children’s Graffiti Found on Various Walls. Click on the triangle to load the point cloud. Labels on the point cloud indicate past room functions.