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Canada's residential schools : the Métis experience. The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada : Volume 3
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

2015

Book

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

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"Canada’s Residential Schools: The Métis Experience focuses on an often-overlooked element of Canada’s residential school history. Canada’s residential school system was a partnership between the federal government and the churches. Since the churches wished to convert as many Aboriginal children as possible, they had no objection to admitting Métis children. At Saint-Paul-des-Métis in Alberta, Roman Catholic missionaries established a residential school specifically for Métis children in the early twentieth century, while the Anglicans opened hostels for Métis children in the Yukon in the 1920s and the 1950s."