HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Saint Lawrence River, Natural Resource, Eviction
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Different: indigenous communities had more control, wouldn"t send their children to residential schools. 3 residential schools in upper and lower canada founded pre-confederation: Mount elgin school at muncey, on (1851-62, Model was set before confederation but expanded after. Failure to transmit skills (ex. parenting skills) Collection of archival documents and survivor statements. Dark chapters to be put behind us: central to the stories liberal nation states tell. Reconciliation and self congratulation (canada as liberal pluralist paradise): We"re talking about these issues so we"re good, we don"t need to work on of themselves reinscribing marginalization improving reserves etc. We need to turn the problematic people into british subjects. State thought of indigenous people as a problem that needed to be solved. Donnacona and his people came to st lawrence river for fishing. Stadacona, city which controlled access of atlantic into the inner parts of st lawrence. Cartier was sent to discover islands and countries where gold and abundance of.
