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Boarding schools in Canada worked towards assimilation of Native students. Historians Brian Klopotek and Brenda Child explain, "Education for Indians was not mandatory in Canada until 1920, long after compulsory attendance laws were passed in the United States, although families frequently resisted sending their children to the residential schools.
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 report noted that an estimated 150,000 children attended residential schools during its 120-year history and an estimated 3200 of those children died in the residential schools. [61] From the 70,000 former IRS students still alive, there were 31,970 sexual or serious sexual assault cases resolved by Independent Assessment Process, and 5,995 ...
Aklavik Anglican Indian Residential School (All Saints Indian Residential School) Shingle Point: NWT: 1927: 1934 (moved to Aklavik due to overcrowding) AN Baptist Indian Residential School (Yukon Indian Residential School) Whitehorse: YT: 1900: 1968: BP Carcross Indian Residential School (Forty Mile Boarding School) Fortymile: YT: 1891: 1910 ...
WaaPaKe ("Tomorrow") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jules Arita Koostachin and released in 2023. [1] The film explores the intergenerational impacts that the Canadian Indian residential school system has continued to have on generations of indigenous people who were not themselves students in the system, but have still been deeply scarred by it because of its effects on their ...
Copies of Correspondence between the Chief Superintendent of Schools for Upper Canada, and other persons, on the question of Separate Schools. Toronto: Lovell & Gibson, 1855. Ryerson University's Aboriginal Education Council. Egerton Ryerson, the Residential School System and Truth and Reconciliation. August, 2010.
"Sugarcane" follows an investigation into the deaths and abuses at St. Joseph’s Mission, a former Catholic-run Indigenous residential school that closed in 1981 in British Columbia.
"Residential Schools in Canada: A Timeline" (2020) – Historica Canada (3:59min) Beginning in 1874 and lasting until 1996, [ 100 ] the Canadian government, in partnership with the dominant Christian Churches, [ 101 ] ran 130 residential boarding schools across Canada for Indigenous children, who were forcibly taken from their homes.