CMS continued to administer the school until 1886, when all activities and properties of the Mission were turned over to the newly created Diocese of Qu’Appelle (the Anglican Church of Canada).

)[5] It accordingly changed its name to the Gordon Boarding School in 1889;[2] at that time, there were 15 boarders and 3 day students, according to reports from Indian agents.

[4] On 1 April 1969, the Canadian government began directly operating the school, with domestic staff being transferred to the federal payroll.

[4] In 1996, Gordon Student Residence was closed and the main building was razed, making it the last federally-funded residential school in Canada.

)[1] Apart from the local children from the George Gordon Reserve, students were drawn from the greater area in Saskatchewan as well, often being the overflow from other residential schools.

Overflow was especially evident as result of the Baby Boom generation, with the year 1965 seeing children coming from such places as Churchill and Split Lake, Manitoba, in the east; Carlyle and Broadview in the south; and Battleford and Pelican Narrows in the north.

The Canadian government maintains that, from 1975 until the closure of the Gordon school in 1996, the band had an advisory board in place that was responsible for administering the school—and by implication, was probably aware of what was happening.

"[12] On the reserve today, the Gordon Recovery and Wellness Centre provides services and support to the victims of the abuse that occurred during the residential school system.

Tony Merchant, a Regina lawyer whose firm has handled thousands of residential-school lawsuits, claims that about 25% of his cases involve alleged Indigenous abusers.

In 1993, Strongeagle was convicted of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old former Gordon student, Betty Nippi (now a member of the Saskatchewan NDP), while his wife watched, in May 1988.

[12] At least four women have filed lawsuits against Melvin McNab, an Indigenous child-care worker at Gordon, alleging sexual and physical assault.

During his time at the school, Bratushesky was officially reprimanded on a number of occasions by the federal Department of Indian Affairs for brutality.

At least two Gordon victims blame Starr, who is claimed to have taught the boys to have sex with one another: "The weaker ones were the sexual prey to the stronger ones.… They were like the ladies of the dorm.