[3]: 180  In 1950 an equipment leak led to the shut down of the school's hot-water supply resulting in students having to carry buckets of boiling water from the basement's boiler to bathtubs in order to bathe.

In 1949 R.A. Hoey, Indian Affairs' superintendent of Welfare and Training determined that the foundation of the school building erected in 1931 was sinking and had large cracks and that no funds had been available for repairs.

[2] Students like Sam Ross, whose story was documented in the Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, complained about the amount of labour they were expected to perform in addition to their studies years after the half-day system had been retired in the early 1950s.

[1]: 80  After running away from the school in 1959, Ross told Indian Affairs J.R. Bell that he had to work in the barn from "6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. and from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. again at recess, from 4:00 p. m. to 6:00 p.m. and had had to stoke up the furnace with coal at 10:00 o'clock before retiring.

[8] University of Saskatchewan assistant professor in anthropology, Terence Clark, pointed to the private ownership of former residential school sites as a potential barrier to similar searches as researchers require permission to access the grounds.