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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.

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Report on the affairs of the Indians in Canada : laid before the Legislative Assembly, 20th March, 1845
Bagot report

Bagot Commission

1842-1844
Description
The Governor General of the Province of Canada, Sir Charles Bagot, was commissioned to conduct an inquiry into issues of administration over "Indian Affairs" in Canada. The report's findings proposed several tactics to assimilate Indigenous peoples into European culture with an emphasis on the importance of controlling the education of Indigenous children.

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