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Elder Dr. Francis Whiskeyjack School celebrated its grand opening on Wednesday night with its namesake in attendance.

Whiskeyjack is a residential school survivor from Saddle Lake First Nations.

In 2010 he was named an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Education, and in 2019 he received an honourary doctorate of law from the University of Alberta.