where was the first residential school opened in canada

The first residential school in Canada’s residential school system was the Mohawk Institute located in Brantford, Ontario.

It’s important to clarify that while some earlier church-run schools existed, the Mohawk Institute, established in 1831, is recognized as the first school within the federally-funded residential school system that operated from the 1880s to the 1990s. This system aimed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture and had lasting negative impacts on Indigenous communities.