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The Canadian Indian residential school system [a] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [ b ] The network was funded by the Canadian government 's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches .
The following is a list of schools that operated as part of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [nb 1] [1] [2] The first opened in 1828, and the last closed in 1997. [3] [4] [5] These schools operated in all Canadian provinces and territories except Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. [6]
The Canadian Indian residential school system [nb 1] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous children directed and funded by the Department of Indian Affairs. [2] Administered by various Christian churches and funded by the Canadian government from 1828 to 1997 Canadian Indian residential school system attempted to assimilate ...
The system, which operated between 1831 and 1996, removed about 150,000 indigenous children from their families and brought them to Christian residential schools run on behalf of the federal ...
The judge and senator who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canadian residential schools' abuse of Indigenous children has died. Murray Sinclair, born near Selkirk, Manitoba ...
The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA; French: Convention de règlement relative aux pensionnats indiens, CRRPI [1]) is an agreement between the government of Canada and approximately 86,000 Indigenous peoples in Canada who at some point were enrolled as children in the Canadian Indian residential school system, a system which was in place between 1879 and 1997.
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR; French: Centre national pour la vérité et la réconciliation, CNVR [1]) is the archival repository for all of the material collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, purposed to compile the complete history and legacy of Canada's residential school system.
At one point, this was the largest Canadian residential school. [4] [28] Canadian politician Leonard Marchand (Okanagan Indian Band) attended the school. [29] So did George Manuel (Secwépemc Nation), who said his three strongest memories of the school were: "hunger; speaking English; and being called a heathen because of my grandfather."