Committee plans to consult with Indigenous communities, academics on legacy of John Fergus O’Grady, the former bishop of Prince George
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A man pauses at a monument outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School where flowers and cards have been left as part of a growing makeshift memorial to honour the 215 children whose remains have been discovered buried near the facility, in Kamloops, B.C., on May 31, 2021.
Discovery of children’s remains at Kamloops residential school ‘stark example of violence’ inflicted upon Indigenous peoples After three decades administering residential schools across the province, he became the bishop of Prince George, where he created a system of elementary and high schools that included both First Nations and non-Indigenous children.
More than 130 schools operated across Canada between the 1870s and 1996, and as many as 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were sent to them despite their families’ objections. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said 4,100 children died of disease or accidents at the schools. Estimates of children who went missing are as high as 6,000.
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