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Sep 30, 2024 · Davin recommended the government contract with churches to run industrial boarding schools that would take native children away from their families and communities and indoctrinate them in...
- Willow Fiddler
- How Many Children Were Forced to Attend These Schools?
- How Many Schools Were there? Where Are They?
- Who Is Being Held Accountable?
- What Has The Vatican Said Or Done About this?
- Is There An Inquiry?
- Are Other Schools Being Investigated Now?
- Where Are The Leaders of These Schools Now?
More than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were forced to attend church-run, government-funded schools between the 1870s and 1997. Amendments to the Indian Act in 1894 authorized the government to remove an Indigenous child from their family if it was felt they were not being properly cared for or educated and place them in a school....
The Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) has recognized 139 residential schoolsacross Canada. However, this number excludes schools that operated without federal support, such as those run solely by religious orders or provincial governments. Click here to see a larger version of the map of residential school locations. The 139 sc...
Many of the children at residential schools were physically, sexually or psychologically abused in a system described by the TRC in its landmark 2015 reportas cultural genocide. In 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered a formal apology in the House of Commons on behalf of the government of Canada over residential schools and the damage they...
The Catholic Church operated roughly 70 per cent of Canada's residential schools, including the Kamloops residential school from 1890 to 1969 before it was taken over by the federal government to serve as a local day school until 1978. While other churches, like the Anglican and United churches, have formally apologized for their roles in the resid...
The TRC released 94 calls to action in its landmark 2015 report, including a section on missing children and burial grounds. It called on the federal government to work with churches, Indigenous communities and former students "to establish and maintain an online registry of residential school cemeteries, including, where possible, plot maps showin...
The TRC concluded in its 2015 report that the bodies of the majority of students who died at the schools were not returnedto their home communities. The commission has records of 51 children dyingat Kamloops Indian Residential School. In light of the recent discovery, Trudeau has pledged federal support in preserving grave sites and uncovering pote...
The University of British Columbia said this week it is reviewing an honorary degreegiven to the now-deceased Catholic bishop, John Fergus O'Grady, who served as principal of the former Kamloops residential school. The discovery in Kamloops has also increased calls across Canada for cities and institutions to rescind honours given to those who were...
Jul 29, 2022 · Outsourcing assimilation. Canada’s residential schools were different from those in the U.S. in two significant ways. First, the Canadian government farmed out First Nations education to the...
Sep 6, 2023 · The Christian denominations involved, which include the Roman Catholic Church, have begun their own investigations into the boarding schools they ran. What do you expect to come of that?
Oct 16, 2019 · Frustration with and other forms of missionary work led all the Christian denominations to support the model of boarding or residential schools. In the decades to come, the government turned over operation of most of the residential schools to the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches.
Jun 5, 2021 · The Catholic Church has yet to atone for the devastating legacy of residential schools. Unlike leaders in the Anglican and United churches, which also ran some of the schools, the Pope has...
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Jul 1, 2023 · Those residential schools, run in Quebec City and Trois-Rivières by Roman Catholic Récollet friars and Jesuit priests, including at least two who became Catholic saints, were smaller than the...
