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The last residential school closed in the late 1980’s
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The legacy or residential schools endures to present day.
Many children who attended these schools have gone on to have their own
families who have escaped the devastating policies or practices of the
residential school era
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Formal education replaced traditional education practices
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Many residential schools did not provide Aboriginal children
with an education, instead they focused on domestic and religious
indoctrination
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Residential schools were generally for younger children
while industrial schools were developed for older children
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Residential schools were developed in every province and
territory except Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland
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Aboriginal children who attended residential schools were
expected to provide the school with the daily upkeep it needed to operate.
Some chores included sweeping the dormitories, tending the furnace,
coal-shoveling, and cleaning the barn
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It has been reported that residential schools never did
teach Aboriginal children anything of academic value as many students did
not excel past grade one or two and many were illiterate even after years
spent at the school
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Residential schools never received the same level of
funding as regular public schools therefore contributing the argument that
the schools provided inadequate education
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Father Lacombe is credited with creating a Cree and
Blackfoot dictionary as well as building the first bridge in the west, the
first flour mill, and helped introduce the Red River Cart to the Canadian
west
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Reverend Robert Rundle aided the Aboriginal people in
many areas of agriculture by teaching them to grow potatoes, barley,
turnips, and other vegetables