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Corporate Author Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, author, issuing body.

Title Canada's Residential Schools : the legacy.

Publication Info. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (391 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report
McGill-Queen's Native and northern series
McGill-Queen's native and northern series.
Note Issued also in print form.
Indexes An index to this volume of the final report is available online. Please visit it http://nctr.ca/trc_reports.php.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Canada's Residential Schools; Title; Copyright; Contents; Statement from the Chair, Justice Murray Sinclair; Statement from the Commissioner, Dr. Marie Wilson; Statement from the Commissioner, Chief Wilton Littlechild; Introduction ; Section 1: The historical context for Canada's residential schools; 1. Colonialism in the Age of Empire ; 2. The churches and their mission of conversion.
3. Residential schooling in French Canada: 1608-17634. Treaty-making and betrayal: The roots of Canada's Aboriginal policy ; 5. Pre-Confederation residential schools; 6. Mission schools in the Canadian West: 1820-1880.
7. Confederation, colonization, and resistance 8. National and international models for Canada's residential schools; Section 2: The Canadian residential school system, 1867 to 1939; 9. Laying the groundwork for the residential school system.
10. Student accounts of residential school life: 1867-193911. Establishing and operating the system: 1867-1939; 12. The struggle over enrolment: 1867-1939; 13. The educational record of residential schools: 1867-1939; 14. The student as labourer: 1867-1939; 15. Recreation and sports: 1867-1939; 16. The deadly toll of infectious diseases: 1867-1939; 17. Building and maintaining the schools: 1867-1939; 18. Fire, a deadly hazard: 1867-1939; 19. Food and diet at residential schools: 1867-1939; 20. School clothing: 1867-1939; 21. Discipline: 1867-1939; 22. Covering up sexual abuse: 1867-1939.
23. Student victimization of students: 1867-193924. Truancy: 1867-1939; 25. Separating children from parents: 1867-1939; 26. Suppressing Aboriginal languages: 1867-1939; 27. Separating children from their traditions: 1867-1939; 28. Separating the sexes, arranging marriages, establishing colonies: 1867-1939; 29. The Lytton school: 1902-1939; 30. Parents respond and resist: 1867-1939; 31. The staff experience: 1867-1939; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada.
Off-reservation boarding schools.
Canada.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- History.
Indigenous peoples.
History.
Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations.
Truth commissions -- Canada.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools.
Indigenous peoples -- Education -- Canada.
Indigenous peoples -- Education.
Truth commissions.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Indigenous peoples -- Government relations.
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form History.
Added Title Final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Volume 5.
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