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Corporate body · 1889–1949

File Hills Residential School was located approximately 14 kilometres north of Balcarres, Saskatchewan, and 100 kilometres northeast of Regina, just outside the western boundary of the Okanese Reserve. The school began as a small day institution, opened by J.C. Richardson in 1884 on the Little Black Bear Reserve. It closed soon afterwards. In 1886, R. Toms reopened the day institution and it operated until 1889, when the Woman's Missionary Society with the support of the Foreign Mission Committee of The Presbyterian Church in Canada and the Department of Indian Affairs built a new institution just outside of the reserve’s boundaries. It was operated by The Presbyterian Church until 1924 when its operation was transferred to the United Church of Canada who managed it until its closure in 1949.