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What was the purpose of residential schools?

When the Europeans came to Canada and found the aboriginal peoples here they found that their ''God'' was not the same and that their ways of living were different. The Europeans thinking that they are superior compared to the Aboriginal people they made Residential Schools and put them in the schools essentially to make them more like the Europeans.


What were the positives of Indian residential schools?

I don't think you will find many people who will deliver up positives of the residential school system. The abuses and destruction of Native culture are well documented. With the last of the residential schools closing in the 1970's, Native communities and Canada in general are still dealing with the problems caused by them. The CBC did a documentary titled A Lost Heritage: Canada's Residential Schools. http://archives.cbc.ca/society/education/topics/692/ The link contains video clips and data on the destruction of Native heritage through the forced assimilation program. The residential schools were plagued with sexual and physical abuse. Children were forbidden to speak their own languages, forced conversion to a religion, ripped away from their communities for 10 months of the year. The separation succeeded in making the children strangers in their own communities and they became alienated from both their own culture and white Canadian society. Generations of children became rootless and purposeless. Not much positive can be derived from this.


What are First Nation Schools?

First Nation schools are called Residential Schools, and they forced First Native students to speak English and tried to force them out of their religious beliefs.


How did children feel when their school was bombed in World War 2?

When schools were bombed in world war 2, children were scared. Many were upset their schools were destroyed because they held an attachment to their schools.


How did the avro arrow cancellation affect Canada?

the cancellation of the avro arrow affected canada in many ways.

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Who was in voled in residential schools?

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How did the Mi'kmaq contribute to the building of Canada?

They helped get rid of the residential schools, which destroyed native cultures and haunted many people.


Where were Indian Residential Schools Set Up in Canada?

All across Canada. Residential schools were common for many Canadians as our population was spread very thinly, too thinly to have schools within a horse or canoe ride. As a result Canadians would send their children to areas with populations large enough to have schools. Many of those schools would have the students stay at the school. Residential schools were also called Boarding schools and still exist today.


Residential School - When and where were these schools?

It started in the mid, late 1800's to the 1900's. in Eastern Canada


What were schools?

Residential schools were isolated schools where aboriginal children were forced away from their families home and culture and were forced to adapt into a white society. these schools were run by the roman catholic church. The aboriginal children who were sent there were often separated by gender, were forced to learn English or french. If they were caught speaking native tongue they would be beaten, locked in closets without food, humiliated, and often were raped. --- Schools where you resided were called Residential Schools. Canada's population was spread across the land and often children had to travel considerable distances to attend school. Residential schools or boarding schools addressed those problems by having children live and often work at schools which were usually far away from home but near major population centres. Today the term usually refers to Canada's aboriginal policy of having racial segregated residential schools off the reserves. These residential schools were run and operated by non-aboriginals and resulted in so much abuse that their history has been apologized for by Canada. We still have racial segregated schools but now they are operated by the Aboriginals themselves and bear no resemblance to the residential schools of the past.


Who created residential schools?

Residential schools were isolated schools where aboriginal children were forced away from their families home and culture and were forced to adapt into a white society. these schools were run by the roman catholic church. The aboriginal children who were sent there were often separated by gender, were forced to learn English or french. If they were caught speaking native tongue they would be beaten, locked in closets without food, humiliated, and often were raped. --- Schools where you resided were called Residential Schools. Canada's population was spread across the land and often children had to travel considerable distances to attend school. Residential schools or boarding schools addressed those problems by having children live and often work at schools which were usually far away from home but near major population centres. Today the term usually refers to Canada's aboriginal policy of having racial segregated residential schools off the reserves. These residential schools were run and operated by non-aboriginals and resulted in so much abuse that their history has been apologized for by Canada. We still have racial segregated schools but now they are operated by the Aboriginals themselves and bear no resemblance to the residential schools of the past.


How many people died in residential schools?

about 156.000 people died


What is Samaritan Residential Schools's motto?

Samaritan Residential Schools's motto is 'LEARN, LEAD SUCCEED'.


How many schools in Canada use laptops?

365 schools


When did the last residential school close in Canada?

Answerthe first residential school opened in1840 in mission B.C. It is generally thought that residential schools were around from somewhere along 1870-1910. However, there are many sources that suggest some were still in effect well into the 1980s. The last one closed in 1996.Initially, residential schools were used for the purpose of assimilation of Aboriginal Children. The concept was to "cure them" of their Aboriginal customs and heritage. By 1920, it was compulsory for ALL Aboriginal children aged 7-15 to attend residential schools. They were forcibly taken from their homes.


Which of the examples below is an example of oppression?

Being the first in your family to graduate from high school


Why were residential schools started?

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