"Residential schools.” On the surface, the term sounds benign, even
bucolic, the sort of place where upper-class Britons would send their
children in preparation for Oxford. But for Native Peoples in Canada,
residential schools are the stuff of nightmares.
For a century, from the 1880s until the mid-1980s, the government of Canada maintained a system of boarding schools for Native children that were operated by churches, including the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, the United Church of Canada, and the Roman Catholic Church. The schools’ ostensible purpose was to provide education for Native children.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/canada/oh-canada
For a century, from the 1880s until the mid-1980s, the government of Canada maintained a system of boarding schools for Native children that were operated by churches, including the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, the United Church of Canada, and the Roman Catholic Church. The schools’ ostensible purpose was to provide education for Native children.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/canada/oh-canada
