Lejac Residential School

[3] Although there were a few lay employees, most of the staff belonged to the Catholic Church, the men to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the women Sisters of the Child Jesus.

The school was named after Father Jean-Marie Lejacq, an Oblate missionary who co-founded the mission at Fort Saint James in 1873.

[4] In 2003, the RCMP charged a former dormitory supervisor with 10 counts of indecent assault, three of gross indecency, two of buggery, and six counts of common assault, for incidents that allegedly took place at the Lejac School and at the Cariboo-St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School near Williams Lake, BC, between 1965 and 1973.

In one particularly tragic incident at the Lejac Residential School, four boys ran away on New Year's Day in 1937 and were found dead, frozen on a lake shortly thereafter.

[7] Marcel Gagnon Indigenous musician pays tribute to the story of deceased boys on his CBC album, New Years Day[citation needed]