| Qu’Appelle | $115 00 |
| Regina | 120 00 |
| Battleford | 140 00 |
| High River | 130 00 |
In addition to the per capita grant, the following concessions have been made to schools established under the above order in council:—
- That account books, stationery and an allowance for postage will be given those institutions.
- That strict accounts of all expenditure incurred on behalf of each school, supported by vouchers, will be required by the department to be kept in each institution, and at the expiration of each year, a revision of the rate of capitation may be made should it appear that such a step is considered necessary.
- In the event of pupils over and above the number already authorized and estimated for on the capitation system, being admitted into a school, and for whom no provision has been made, beds for occupation by such additional pupils are to be given by the department, if they cannot be made in the institution.
- In the event of the erection of new buildings at the expense of the department becoming necessary, the cost of the heating apparatus to be included in such cost.
- Agricultural and other implements, when considered by the department as being unfit for further use, may be disposed of by the officers of the institution in such manner as may be thought proper by them.
- The department will agree to provide sufficient grazing land for use of each institution.
- The department agrees to provide sufficient fencing material for the first inclosure required, but the fences must be renewed at the expense of the institution.
- Medical attendance as directed by the commissioner for the pupils of each institution will be provided and paid for by the department.
- An advance of a sum to be agreed upon will, until further advice, be made by the department to each institution at the commencement of each quarter, to admit of the current expenses of that quarter being defrayed.
Such then was the beginning of what may be called secondary school education amongst the Indians of the Northwest, and this, as will be noticed, was coincident with the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway, which was completed across the prairie and which event the commissioner states would facilitate the movement of pupils and supplies.
| MANITOBA. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agency. | Report, 1905–6. Population. | Children from 6 to 15. | Industrial and Boarding Schools. | Average Annual Attendance. | Year Established. | |
| Treaty I— | ||||||
| Lower Lake Winnipeg Agency | 2,504 | 471 | { | Brandon, (M.) | 91 | 1895 |
| Elkhorn, (C. E.) | 71 | 1888 | ||||
| Treaty II— | 727 | 164 | { | Cecilia Jeffrey, (P.) | 31 | 1902 |
| Lake Manitoba Agency | Rat Portage, (R. C.) | 28 | 1897 | |||
| Fort Alexander, (R. C.) | 45 | |||||
| Treaty III— | ||||||
| Buffalo Bay Agency | 26 | 4 | Norway House, (M.) | 51 | 1890 | |
| Treaty IV— | 1,217 | 274 | { | Portage la Prairie, (P.) | 23 | 1891 |
| Bull Agency | Sandy Bay, (R. C.) | 35 | 1903 | |||
| Pine Creek, (R. C.) | 66 | 1890 | ||||
| Treaty V— | ||||||
| Lake Winnipegosis Agency | 3,479 | 796 | Birtle (P.) | 44 | 1888 | |
| Sioux near Portage la Prairie | 121 | 17 | ||||
| 8,074 | 1,726 | 479 | ||||
| SASKATCHEWAN. | ||||||
| Treaty VI— | Industrial— | |||||
| Pelly Agency | 628 | 187 | Qu’Appelle, (R. C.) | 206 | 1884 | |
| White Bear Agency | 189 | 36 | Regina, (P.) | 56 | 1892 | |
| Crooked Lake Agency | 534 | 109 | Battleford, (C. E.) | 71 | 1884 | |
| Boarding— | ||||||
| Qu’Appelle Agency | 860 | 140 | ||||
| Assiniboine Agency | 313 | 26 | Round Lake, (P.) | 30 | 1887 | |
| Touchwood Hills Agency | 520 | 85 | Cowessis, (R. C.) | 44 | 1898 | |
| Duck Lake Agency | 945 | 228 | File Hills, (P.) | 16 | 1889 | |
| Carlton Agency | 1,608 | 413 | Gordon’s, (C. E.) | 24 | 1892 | |
| Battleford Agency | 886 | 139 | Muscowequan, (R. C.) | 31 | 1889 | |
| Onion Lake Agency | 942 | 141 | Thunder Child, (R. C.) | 20 | 1895 | |
| Duck Lake, (R. C.) | 100 | 1895 | ||||
| Prince Albert. (C. E.) | 48 | 1889 | ||||
| Isle à la Crosse, (R. C.) | 28 | 1897 | ||||
| Crowstand, (P.) | 47 | 1889 | ||||
| Keesekoose, (R. C.) | 22 | 1903 | ||||
| 7,425 | 1,504 | 735 | ||||
| ALBERTA. | ||||||
| Treaty VI—Con. | Industrial— | |||||
| Ermineskin’s Agency | 694 | 123 | High River, (R. C.) | 77 | 1885 | |
| Saddle Lake Agency | 787 | 126 | Calgary, (C. E.) | 18 | 1896 | |
| Hobbema Agency | 691 | 113 | Red Deer, (M.) | 83 | 1893 | |
| Treaty VII— | Boarding— | |||||
| Peigan, (C. E.) | 26 | 1893 | ||||
| Blackfoot Agency | 803 | 129 | Sacred Heart, (R. C.) | 28 | 1895 | |
| Sarcee Agency | 203 | 29 | St. Pauls, (C. E.) | 36 | 1893 | |
| Stony Agency | 660 | 156 | Blood Reserve, (R. C.) | 38 | 1898 | |
| Peigan Agency | 493 | 87 | Sarcee, (C. E.) | 15 | 1895 | |
| Blood Agency | 1,181 | 236 | Morley, (M.) | 33 | 1887 | |
| Blackfoot, (C. E.) | 31 | 1884 | ||||
| Blackfoot, (R. C.) | 30 | 1900 | ||||
| Hobbema (R. C.) | 50 | 1895 | ||||
| St. Albert, (R. C.) | 64 | 1889 | ||||
| Saddle Lake, (R. C.) | 34 | 1893 | ||||
| Onion Lake, (C. E.) | 11 | 1891 | ||||
| Onion Lake, (R. C.) | 33 | 1894 | ||||
| 5,512 | 999 | 612 | ||||
| Grand total | 21,011 | 4,212 | ||||
The total number in attendance at the industrial and boarding schools visited by me is thus seen to have been 1,826 in 1905–6; while the actual number of those present in all these in 1905–6 was 1,999. This with the total number, 694, registered at the 74 day schools in 1905–6, gives the total school attendance in schools of every class as 2,691.
| Approp. for Sal. or Annual Grant. | On Roll. | Attendance. | |
| Manitoba | $ 13,430 00 | 1,071 | 476 |
| Saskatchewan | 5,760 00 | 323 | 138 |
| Alberta | 2,700 00 | 186 | 80 |
| 21,890 00 | 1,580 | 694 |
While the legal school age for admission is from 7 to 16 years, yet children are admitted at 6 years, and are regularly graduated from the industrial and boarding schools at 18 years, but the number of persons between the ages of 7 to 17 inclusive in an average population of 21,011 would be about 5,160, so that taking the average attendance in all schools as 2,691, this amounts to but 52 per cent of the Indian pupils of the ages between which children actually attend school.
Reverting to the boarding and industrial school attendance, it is found that a remarkable change has taken place in the relative numbers, during the past six years.
| Territory. | Industrial Schools. | Boarding Schools. | Total School Attendance. | |||
| 1900 | 1906 | 1900 | 1906 | 1900 | 1906 | |
| Manitoba | 394 | 195 | 153 | 420 | 547 | 615 |
| N. W. Territories | 624 | 498 | 993 | 1,319 | 1,617 | 1,817 |
| 1,018 | 693 | 1,146 | 1,739 | 2,164 | 2,432 | |