I’m not sure if I should even mention this day … other than to say we are very sad in Canada these days as we learn about our country’s past and continued treatment of the Indigenous people here.
A lot of people seem to believe this all happened thousands of years ago, but these Residential Schools were still in operation up until the 1990’s
These Schools were operated by the Canadian Government and Catholic Church and every day we learn of a new atrocity a new genocide perpetrated by the Government Officials, the Catholic Priest and Nuns, the RCMP as children were taken from their homes, abused and murdered by the thousands.
This is going to be a very difficult time in Canada.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/residential-school-records-indigenous-1.6083493
It is hard to fathom the full horror of what happened in Canada’s church-run residential schools for over a century: systematic abuse and mistreatment, on an industrial scale, with an estimated 150,000 Indigenous children ripped from their homes. The last school closed in 1996. Thousands have since testified to widespread sexual and physical abuse, forced labour on starvation rations, the eradication of their language and culture, and diseases allowed to run rampant. Some witnesses even spoke of killings. The 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report called it cultural genocide.
751 Unmarked Graves Discovered Near Former Indigenous School in Canada
Experts estimate 4,000 to 10,000 children may have died at the schools, often from a combination of poor living conditions and disease
There are 139 Residential Schools in Canada … So far they have found over 1,000 bodies at 3 schools.
Saskatchewan: 751 students at the cemetery of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in the southeast corner of the Saskatchewan province.
British Columbia: 215 students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.
British Columbia : 182 students using radar detection equipment near the site of a former residential school for indigenous children. St. Eugene's Mission School near Cranbook was operated by the Catholic Church from 1912 until the early 1970s.
Until the late 20th century, the children of Canada's First Nations were forcibly enrolled in 139 residential reform schools. There they were physically and emotionally abused by teachers and principals who refused them the right to speak their language and practice their culture.
