CAST 1100H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nicholas Flood Davin, Canadian Studies, Boarding School

• School: Trent University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CAST 1100H
• Professor: T.Mc Coy

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Founded and operated my church and state relations. Until the 1980s the truth of the school was hidden. Everyone assumed schools provided a normal education, love, and care. Milloy: national expert on canada residential schools. The system is not someone else"s history, nor is it just a footnote or a paragraph, a preface or a chapter, in canadian history. The policy of civilization would be a partnership between government, mission societies, and band councils. It would herald a new way of life for first nations people that would lead to self- sufficiency. Start of the 19th century, upper and lower canada created policy of civilization. Assumed adults were too engulfed in their culture to change, but children can be more easily influenced. The davin report recommended residential school were the best way to bring civilization. Boarding school can break the bond of family, culture and influences, which is needed to separate them from their culture.