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Of the dozens of residential schools built across Canada, 15 to 20 are still standing. From B.C. to Ontario, many of the Indigenous people trying to overcome the schools’ toxic history say it ...
On a typical day at the Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., in the 19th century and into the early 20th century, children were wakened at 5:30 a.m. to do an hour of chores ...
The Mohawk Institute, one of two residential schools in Southwestern Ontario, operated for 140 years before it closed in 1972. Nearly 15,000 children attended the school.
The Six Nations reserve in Brantford and former students want to save a historic building that was a residential school. Aboriginals push to save former Ontario residential school known as ‘mush ...
It's now called the Rufus Prince building — named for a residential school survivor, chief and Second World War veteran — and is home to a museum, archives and the Dakota Ojibwe Police.
The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie is being honoured with a prestigious award from the Ontario Museum Association.
The Galt Museum is hosting Nitsitapii tours for residential school survivors and their descendants. The tours are funded by the Anglican Healing Fund as a way of promoting healing through Blackfoot ...
Residential schools operated in Canada between the 1870s and 1990s, with the last school closing in 1996. An estimated 150,000 Indian, Inuit, and Metis children between the ages of four and 16 ...
The Ontario government has committed over $65 million to search the grounds of 18 former Indian Residential Schools in the province looking for potential burial sites. The number is an increase ...
Residential school memorial created in Port Hardy dedicated at Canadian Museum of History. The 18-foot-tall, four-feet-wide carving topped by a raven features an inverted cross, as well as an ...