Residential Schools

A quick guide to library resources on residential schools in Canada

Consider this

Indian Residential Schools of Canada
a map showing the locations of residential schools across the country as well as the churches affiliated with each school

From the 1870s to the 1990s, Canada, often in partnership with leading church organisations, operated a residential school system to which over 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit students were sent.

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