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Dec 8, 2022 · New information uncovered by Radio-Canada's investigative program, Enquête, suggests there were perhaps dozens more deaths in Quebec residential schools than the 38 officially reported by the ...
May 29, 2021 · The commission ultimately determined that at least 3,200 children died while a student at a Residential School; one in every 50 students enrolled during the program’s nearly 120-year existence ...
Aug 1, 2021 · 6 min read. Canada’s Residential Schools Were a Horror. Founded to carry out the genocide of Indigenous people, they created conditions that killed thousands of children. By Ian Mosby & Erin ...
- Four New Schools Founded in 1950s and 60s
- 'The only Kids Left in The Village Were Babies'
- Racist Curriculum
- Complaints of Abuse Went Unheeded
- Enduring Legacy
In 1948, the Canadian Parliament had sufficient concerns about the health of students at residential schools across Canada to recommend they be shut down. In Quebec, however, the system was just getting started. At the time, there were only two residential schools — both at Fort George on James Bay. But there was growing interest in exploiting natu...
The reports produced by the TRC, as well as those from the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and Quebec's Viens commission, detail the violence of the residential school system in the province. Survivors frequently mention the distress they experienced as children, sometimes as young as five or six, when ...
Residential school curriculum was explicitly racist. A document from 1959, tabled at the TRC, explains that the goal of history lessons at Catholic residential schools was to instruct students about "the purity of our French-Canadian origins, the religious, moral, heroic and idealistic character of our ancestors." In the Quebec schools, as in other...
While the schools were operational in Quebec, there were also repeated complaints about sexual abuse, though there are no records of any convictions. A cook at La Tuque lost his job in 1969 after he was spotted taking a 10-year-old student into a bathroom for what his co-workers believed was a sexual assault, the TRC document said. The following ye...
By the 1970s, Canada was winding down its residential school system, and over the span of the decade, the institutions in Quebec were closed. Pointe-Bleue was taken over by Indigenous management and shuttered in 1991. The building has since been reclaimed by the community and is now home to the local high school. The withdrawal of the federal gover...
Feb 6, 2022 · The dark legacy of Canada's residential schools, where thousands of children died 13:31. Last year, when archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at an old school in ...
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Aug 28, 2021 · The entire system of Indian boarding schools has long been condemned by Native Americans as a form of cultural genocide. The students of the Carlisle Indian School are amassed on the grounds of ...
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Dec 19, 2023 · Officials chose to ignore these warnings. Altogether, residential schools began in the early 1800s and ran for more than 150 years (3, 6, 7). The last school in Canada closed in 1996. During that ...
