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Timeline of the Residential School System
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Timeline of the Residential School System
Kelly Chow
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1969
1958
1920
1867 : Indian Act
1996
2008
2005
Indian Affairs regional inspectors recommend abolition of residential schools.
- Final Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples is released
- calls for a public inquiry into the effects of residential schools upon generations of First Nations
Duncan Campbell Scott:
- Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs
- makes residential school attendance
compulsory for children
- between the ages 7 - 15 years old
AFN National Chief,
Phil Fontaine:
- announces a lawsuit
against the Government
of Canada over the legacy
of the residential schools.
Gordon Indian Residential School
The Indian Act is enacted :
- gives government exclusive right to create legislation regarding Indians and Indian lands
- allows federal government to establish Indian Residential Schools
- identifies who is an Indian and establishes related legal rights
- last federally-run residential school
- in Punnichy, Saskatchewan
Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes on behalf of Canada to families of survivors and the survivors themselves of the Residential School System.
- partnership between the government and churches ends
- the federal government takes over the Residential School
system
- transfer of the schools to Indian bands begins.
1950
1960
1895
1990
1997
2006
1865
1998
1960
1896
1955
2006
1994
Approximately 10,000 aboriginal
students are now attending 60
schools across the Canada.
- federal government issues Gathering Strength:
- Canada’s Aboriginal Action Plan, designed to renew relationship with the First Nations
- Aboriginal Healing Foundation
- established to make a $350 million healing fund over ten years.
Churches issue formal apologies for their contribution to the Residential School System:
- the United Church
- the Catholic Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate
- the Anglican Church
- the Presbyterian Church
Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement
signed by:
- federal government
- legal representatives of former students
- Assembly of First Nations
- Inuit representatives
- churches
Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement
(IRSSA)
The federal government starts to expand the Residential Schools system and hostels for Inuit students in the North.
At this point, 45 residential and industrial schools are operating in Canada.
- contentious to some, and does not represent Survivors of all schools