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Feb 1, 1999 · Just one Canadian church owes its name directly to a monarch: when King George III furnished funds for constructing Quebec’s cathedral in 1799, he stipulated that it “be dedicated to the Most Holy Trinity.”
By the early 1960s, the churches and government concluded that the residential school system had failed. On April 1, 1969, the remaining church-run hostels and residential schools were taken over by the government who planned to close them as soon as possible or turn them over to First Nations groups.
Aug 3, 2022 · Strictly speaking, the United Church did not “get into” residential schools; it absorbed them. When the Methodists and two-thirds of the Presbyterian denomination joined with the Congregationalists in 1925, they brought their schools with them — 12 in total.
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Jul 23, 1999 · When Dutch immigrants from the RCN(Lib) came to Canada, they did not desire to set up a new church, but sought to join an existing one. Many joined the Christian Reformed Church (CRC), for that had always been their North American sister church.
While there had been no schisms among Canadian Protestants like those that rent the U.S. churches during the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Canadian churches in the late nineteenth century existed in a disunited state because of sectional divisions over the vast Canadian territory, as well as the establishment of many similar but ...
Oct 10, 2012 · Residential schools were created by Christian churches and the Canadian government as an attempt to both educate and convert Indigenous youth and to assimilate them into Canadian society. However, the schools disrupted lives and communities, causing long-term problems among Indigenous peoples.
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Residential schools were government-sponsored Christian schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into settler-Canadian society. Successive Canadian governments used legislation to strip Indigenous peoples of their basic human and legal rights and to gain control over Indigenous lives, their lands, and natural rights and resources.
