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Did you know?

  • The last residential school closed in the late 1980’s

  • 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

  • Formal education replaced traditional education practices

  • Many residential schools did not provide Aboriginal children with an education, instead they focused on domestic and religious indoctrination

  • Residential schools were generally for younger children while industrial schools were developed for older children

  • Residential schools were developed in every province and territory except Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland

  • 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

  • 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

  • Residential schools never received the same level of funding as regular public schools therefore contributing the argument that the schools provided inadequate education

  • 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

  • Reverend Robert Rundle aided the Aboriginal people in many areas of agriculture by teaching them to grow potatoes, barley, turnips, and other vegetables
     

 

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