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hostel North 
1 n. a residential boarding house for Eskimos or Indians attending school away from home.
See also: Indian residential hostel
- 1958 Last January we opened a new school and hostel at Fort Smith. Construction is now underway at the new town of Aklavik of a school and hostel which will be opened sometime next year.
- 1965 At Fort George . . . there is an Anglican hostel and federal school. . . .
2 n. a boarding school operated or subsidized by the federal government to accommodate students, especially Indians and Eskimos, attending classes at a considerable distance from their homes.
See also: hostel school residential school
- 1958 Schools are now being built throughout the north, and hostels for children to live in who cannot go to day school near their own homes.
- 1964 As well as the children at the school, others at . . . a government hostel in Whitehorse will receive gifts.
- 1958 Last January we opened a new school and hostel at Fort Smith. Construction is now underway at the new town of Aklavik of a school and hostel which will be opened sometime next year.