[1] In 1903, Nation Members began to build a schoolhouse with room for 50 boys and girls with the support of the Roman Catholic Bishop of New Westminster and Oblate missionaries.
From 1924 to 1969, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate managed the school, and members of that order were also posted there until 1975.
[4] The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation acknowledged the deaths of five students who attended the school.
[2] In 2021, in the light of discussion of Canadian Indian residential school gravesites and in particular deaths at Kamloops Indian Residential School, Chief Warren Paull of the shíshálh Nation said "As far as deaths go, I know that's not even close to the approximate number.
The site is now occupied by the administrative and cultural centre of the shíshálh Nation, including the tems swiya Museum and the Raven's Cry Theatre.