We welcome you to the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.

The records on our site emerge from the cultural and physical genocide that the Canadian government and churches conducted through the Indian Residential School System, including the ongoing impacts.

Bearing witness to these records may become overwhelming. If you are a Survivor or an Intergenerational Survivor and would like support, you can call the 24-hour National Indian Residential School Crisis Line at:

1-866-925-4419

Please click the button below for other cultural and mental health resources.

Wellness Resources
Home > Find > Residential schools : the devastating impact on Canada's ...
Residential schools : the devastating impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings and calls for action
Image courtesy of James Lorimer & Company

Residential schools : the devastating impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings and calls for action
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2016
Book > Non-Fiction
Creators
Florence, Melanie
Description
"Canada's residential school system for aboriginal young people is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. This book documents this subject in a format that will give all young people access to this painful part of Canadian history.
 

Through historical photographs, documents, and first-person narratives from First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people who survived residential schools, this book offers an account of the injustice of this period in Canadian history. It documents how this official racism was confronted and finally acknowledged" --publisher's website.

Subjects

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

More Information

Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
9781459408661; 1459408667
Statement of Responsibility
Melanie Florence.
Publication Information
Toronto : James Lorimer & Company
Physical Description
128 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour map ; 29 cm
Notes
Series title: Righting Canada's wrongs.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
First Nations author - Plains Cree/Scottish.
Contents
Map of Residential Schools -- Introduction -- Life Before the Schools -- Conflict Arising from Contact -- The Children Are Taken -- Life at Residential School -- Closing the Schools -- Life After Residential School -- Apology and Redress -- Timeline.
Electronic Location and Access
Also available online (authentication may be required)
Permalink

Discussion

Do you have a story to contribute related to these records or a comment about this item?

Related

People/Organizations

Records

TOP