A monument will be built in a small northern Alberta community to remember the children who attended a residential school that operated there for 100 years.

Holy Angels Residential School was founded in 1874 in Fort Chipewyan, a hamlet about 300 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. The school closed in 1974 and has been subsequently demolished.

The motion to erect the monument passed unanimously at the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo's council meeting on Tuesday evening. 

Its location, design …