Canada's residential schools: the legacy describes what Canada must do to overcome the schools' tragic legacy and move towards reconciliation with the country's first peoples. For over 125 years Aboriginal children suffered abuse and...
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Reports
The NNELS team has produced (see our news release) all of the reports from Canada's Residential Schools, The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015 and 2016) in accessible formats.
The original files are available from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) as PDF documents in English and in PDF documents in French. Print editions of the Executive Summary are available from Lorimer Books, and the rest of the volumes are available in print from McGill-Queen's University Press.
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Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to ?civilize and Christianize? Aboriginal...
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Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize" Aboriginal...
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Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize" Aboriginal...
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Canada's residential schools: reconciliation documents the complexities, challenges, and possibilities of reconciliation by presenting the findings of public testimonies from residential school survivors and others who participated in...
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Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize" Aboriginal...
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While the northern experience of residential schools was unique in some ways, the broader themes remain constant. Children were taken from their parents, often with little in the way of consultation or consent. They were educated in an...
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formed in 2008 as part of the Indian Residential Schools (IRS) Settlement agreement. For years, commissioners traveled across Canada to conduct interviews with Residential School survivors and...
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Canada's residential school system for Aboriginal children was an educationsystem in name only for much of its existence. These residential schools werecreated for the purpose of separating Aboriginal children from their families, in...
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Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d'un bout à l'autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d'avis qu'afin de " civiliser et...
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Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d'un bout à l'autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d'avis qu'afin de « civiliser et de...
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Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de...
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Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d'un bout à l'autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d'avis qu'afin de "civiliser et...
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Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de...
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Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de...
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Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d?un bout à l?autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d?avis qu?afin de « civiliser et de...
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