In Memory of First Nation Children

We should all be very careful when commenting on these schools as there is much political correctness (pensée unique) and ignorance about what really happened.

 

In the 1920's, Dr. Peter H. Bryce, then chief medical inspector for the canadian federal government, mentionned in a report "in no instance was a child awaiting admission to school found free from tuberculosis.” Bryce referenced an “excessive mortality” in children ages 5-10, noting that infection was primarily contracted in their family homes and then spread in the schools."

 

In 2015, Tomson Highway, renowned Cree playwright, told the now-defunct Huffington Post Canada that he spent nine of the “happiest years” of his life at a residential school. The school, called the Guy Hill Residential School, was run by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

My take on the sad times on First Nation children that were taken from their homes and put in care of church and its rules. Take care.