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Battleford looking at future of Battlefords Industrial School chimney
A chimney that bore witness to the residential school era and subsequent deaths of 74 children housed within the building it once served is facing the possibility of joining the rest of the ruins that lay scattered among the grounds on the Ridge.
During Monday night’s Battleford’sCouncil meeting, Mayor Ames Leslie spoke to the visit he and Councillor Doug Laing took to the Mosquito Grizzly Bear’s Head Lean Man Economic Development, they noticed holes around the base of the chimney stack from the former Government House and later Battlefords Industrial School.
“This is a recommendation that funds be set aside in the 2025 operating budget as there is some potential work to be done,” said Leslie.
He explained that the recommendation from an engineering firm was to repair the masonry work at the top of the stack along with at its base.