Honouring the truth, reconciling for the future : summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Paper Book, 2015

Status

REFERENCE BOOK - IN LIBRARY USE ONLY

Call number

971.004 T78 2015

Call number

971.004 T78 2015

Collection

Local notes

Shelved in Aboriginal Collection

Description

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 order to minimize and weaken family ties and cultural linkages, and to indoctrinatechildren into a new culture—the culture of the legally dominant Euro-ChristianCanadian society, led by Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Theschools were in existence for well over 100 years, and many successive generations ofchildren from the same communities and families endured the experience of them.That experience was hidden for most of Canada’s history, until Survivors of the systemwere finally able to find the strength, courage, and support to bring their experiencesto light in several thousand court cases that ultimately led to the largest class-actionlawsuit in Canada’s history.… (more)

Publication

[Vancouver, British Columbia] : The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015

ISBN

9780660020778
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