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Creating Canada 1850-1890

By Aaryelle S. P.

  • First Operating Residential School

    First Operating Residential School
    There were a total of 130 residential schools operating by 1831 and the Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ontario, accepted its first boarding students in 1831.

  • Residential Schools In The Beginning of the 1870s

    Residential Schools In The Beginning of the 1870s
    The government was required to provide Indigenous youth with an education and to assimilate them into Canadian society.

  • Residential Schools In Canada

    Residential Schools In Canada
    Residential schools were made to ¨take the Indian out" of the indigenous kids and teach them Euro-Canadian culture.

  • Measles At Lytton School

    Measles At Lytton School
    13 children died from a combination of measles and whooping cough at the Lytton school.

  • Institutions

    Institutions
    The residential school system totaled 80 institutions by 1930.

  • Nutrition Experiments

    Nutrition Experiments
    Research by food historian Ian Mosby (published in 2013) revealed that students at some residential schools in the 1940s were subjected to nutritional experiments without their consent or the consent of their parents.

  • Life at Residential Schools

    Life at Residential Schools
    In the late 1950s, residential schools operated on a half-day system, in which students spent half the day in the classroom and the other at work.

  • Home For The Holidays

    Home For The Holidays
    Only from the 1960s on did the schools routinely send children home for holidays.

  • Catholic Role

    Catholic Role
    Beginning of the 1990s, former students demanded that government and churches publicly acknowledge their role in the schools and provide compensation for their suffering.

  • Last Residential School

    Last Residential School
    The last residential school closed in 1996. Which ended the torture to the indigenous people.

  • Government Donation

    Government Donation
    The federal government established a $1.9 billion compensation package for the survivors of abuse at residential schools.

  • Formal Apology

    Formal Apology
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper, apologized on behalf of the Government of Canada to all former students of residential schools in Canada.

  • Historical Sites

    Historical Sites
    The federal government announced it is designating two former residential schools —Shubenacadie Residential School in Nova Scotia and Portage La Prairie Residential School in Manitoba as national historic sites.