In October 2025, MTS and MPACS students were on a Field Trip at Woodland Cultural Centre Museum and Former Mohawk Institute in Brantford, ON.
The Mohawk Institute was the longest-running residential school in Canada, opening in 1828 as a day school for boys from the reserve, before accepting boarders and girls in 1834, according to the Survivors' Secretariat. It closed in 1970 after about 15,000 children from over 60 communities across Canada had been forced to attend the school. At least 105 died while enrolled there of illness or injury, or ran away and died elsewhere.
The Woodland Cultural Centre was established two years after the Mohawk Institute closed. Its work includes teaching about the history of the residential school, as well as collecting artifacts, survivor stories and research.
This trip is organized every other year, and it gives MTS and MPACS students an opportunity to learn about an important and painful part of Canada’s history.
