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Canada's residential schools : the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's Native and northern seriesPublication details: Montreal ; Kingston : Published for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission by McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773598256
  • 9780773598263
Other title:
  • Canada's Residential Schools Volume 4, Missing children and unmarked burials
  • Final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume 4
  • Missing children and unmarked burials
  • Volume 4, Missing children and unmarked burials
  • Canada's residential schools : Missing children and unmarked burials
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E96 .C363 2015
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Contents:
2. Operational politics and custodial care -- 3. Where are the children buried? Cemeteries and unmarked burials -- Appendices. 1. Canada's residential schools -- 2. Schools destroyed by fire: 1867 to 1997 -- 3. Outbuildings destroyed by fire : 1867 to 1997 -- 4. Additional reported fires that did not destroy buildings : 1867 to 1997 -- 5. School fires that were suspected or proven to be deliberately set : 1867 to 1997.
Subject: "Canada's Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials is the first systematic effort to record and analyze deaths at the [residential] schools, and the presence and condition of student cemeteries, within the regulatory context in which the schools were intended to operate ... The failure to establish and enforce adequate standards of care, coupled with the failure to adequately fund the schools, resulted in unnecessarily high death rates at residential schools. Senior government and church officials were well aware of the schools' ongoing failure to provide adequate levels of custodial care. Children who died at the schools were rarely sent back to their home community. They were usually buried in school or nearby mission cemeteries. As the schools and missions closed, these cemeteries were abandoned. While in a number of instances Aboriginal communities, churches, and former staff have taken steps to rehabilitate cemeteries and commemorate the individuals buried there, most of these cemeteries are now disused and vulnerable to accidental disturbance. In the face of this abandonment, the TRC is proposing the development of a national strategy for the documentation, maintenance, commemoration, and protection of residential school cemeteries"--Publisher's description
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An index to this volume of the final report is available online. Please visit it http://nctr.ca/trc_reports.php.

Includes bibliographical references.

Executive summary. 1 Statistical analysis -- 2. Operational politics and custodial care -- 3. Where are the children buried? Cemeteries and unmarked burials -- Appendices. 1. Canada's residential schools -- 2. Schools destroyed by fire: 1867 to 1997 -- 3. Outbuildings destroyed by fire : 1867 to 1997 -- 4. Additional reported fires that did not destroy buildings : 1867 to 1997 -- 5. School fires that were suspected or proven to be deliberately set : 1867 to 1997.

"Canada's Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials is the first systematic effort to record and analyze deaths at the [residential] schools, and the presence and condition of student cemeteries, within the regulatory context in which the schools were intended to operate ... The failure to establish and enforce adequate standards of care, coupled with the failure to adequately fund the schools, resulted in unnecessarily high death rates at residential schools. Senior government and church officials were well aware of the schools' ongoing failure to provide adequate levels of custodial care. Children who died at the schools were rarely sent back to their home community. They were usually buried in school or nearby mission cemeteries. As the schools and missions closed, these cemeteries were abandoned. While in a number of instances Aboriginal communities, churches, and former staff have taken steps to rehabilitate cemeteries and commemorate the individuals buried there, most of these cemeteries are now disused and vulnerable to accidental disturbance. In the face of this abandonment, the TRC is proposing the development of a national strategy for the documentation, maintenance, commemoration, and protection of residential school cemeteries"--Publisher's description

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