SOC 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Truancy, Sixties Scoop, Nicholas Flood Davin
22 Feb 2017
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Canadian residential schools and the trc calls to action. They came for the children to christianize and civilize: canada"s residential schools (pp. In 1883, sir john a. macdonald authorized the creation of 3 residential schools for aboriginal children in west canada. He is simply a savage who can read and write. - sir john a. In order to educate the children properly we must separate them from their families. Some people may say that it is hard but if we want to civilize them we must do that - hector. Before these schools were created there were boarding schools created by missionaries from. France however the few children that attended this school soon ran away from it and back to their families. Before 1883, instead of residential schools there were series of church led initiatives. The 3 schools proposed by macdonald were referred to as the industrial schools . By 1931, the government funded about 80 of these schools.
