The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Chri
A Catholic Indian residential school in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories
Mohawk Institute Residential School, c. 1943
St. Paul's Indian Industrial School, Middlechurch, Manitoba, 1901
Anglican-run Battleford Industrial School, Carpenter's shop, circa 1894
Throughout the history of Canada, the Canadian government, its colonial predecessors, and European settlers perpetrated systematic violence against Indigenous peoples that increasingly has been descri
Canadian Indian residential school system
…diseases such as tuberculosis. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was established in 2008, concluding in 2015 labeling the system as a cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Efforts have been ongoing to identify unmarked graves at former school sites, and Pope Francis acknowledged the system as genocide in 2022. The House…
They Came for the Children a publication by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Beothuk tribe of Newfoundland is extinct as a cultural group. It is represented in museum, historical and archaeological records.
The Brother Jonathan docked at Victoria's Esquimalt Harbour on 12 March 1862, carrying smallpox infected passengers from San Francisco.