Gordon's Indian Residential School was a boarding school for George Gordon First Nation students in Punnichy, Saskatchewan, and was the last federally-funded residential school in Canada. It was located adjacent to the George Gordon Reserve. Between 1876 to 1946, the school was managed by the Anglican Church of Canada, under the auspices of the Diocese of Qu'Appelle. It was then managed by the Church's Indian & Eskimo Welfare Commission, and later its Indian School Administration. In April 1969, administration for the school was transferred to the Government of Canada. From then onward, the Anglican Church provided chaplaincy services to the school. In 1996, Gordon Student Residence was closed and the main building was demolished. History Named after Chief George Gordon, the George Gordon Reserve was established in 1874, under Treaty 4, in Punnichy, Saskatchewan, within the Touchwood Hills area. Though there was a day school in Touchwood Hills, operated by Church Missionary Society (CMS), it was located far away from the new reserve. As such, the CMS relocated in 1876 to Crown land on the edge of the reserve, where it established the Gordon School. (The year 1876 also saw the passing of the Indian Act). 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). In 1888, with funding from the Government of Canada, the school building was expanded to accommodate boarders (i.e., residential students) for the first time. (The federal government had paid for all capital improvements to the school since 1888.) It accordingly changed its name to the Gordon Boarding School in 1889; at that time, there were 15 boarders and 3 day students, according to reports from Indian agents. Between 1893 and 1895, the school changed its name to Gordon's Indian School and gained a new two-story building, thereby expanding its capacity to 30 students. In 1915, the federal government again expanded the school and raised authorized capacity to 45 students. The school experienced a major fire in 1921, and was replaced the following year with a new capacity for 100 students. While most of the Anglican residential schools came under the control of the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) in 1923, the Diocese of Qu’Appelle retained control of Gordon’s. It was eventually renamed to Gordon's Indian Residential School in 1926.