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hostel school North 
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: residential school
- 1958 [Coppermine's] federal day school . . . and tent hostel school . . . are attempting to fit Eskimo children into the new way of life that lies ahead of them.
- 1961 For Ottawa's Indian Affairs branch, they also fly a school-bus service from remote Indian and Eskimo settlements to federal hostel schools, as well as medical missions.
- 1958 [Coppermine's] federal day school . . . and tent hostel school . . . are attempting to fit Eskimo children into the new way of life that lies ahead of them.