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Lieutenant General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck GCB GCH PC (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839), known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British military commander and politician who served as the governor of Fort William (Bengal) from 1828 to 1834 and the first governor-general of India from 1834 to 1835.
The following is a list of schools that operated as part of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [nb 1] [1] [2] The first opened in 1828, and the last closed in 1997. [3] [4] [5] These schools operated in all Canadian provinces and territories except Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. [6]
Boarding schools in Canada worked towards assimilation of Native students. Historians Brian Klopotek and Brenda Child explain, "Education for Indians was not mandatory in Canada until 1920, long after compulsory attendance laws were passed in the United States, although families frequently resisted sending their children to the residential schools.
The English Education Act 1835 was a legislative Act of the Council of India, gave effect to a decision in 1835 by Lord William Bentinck, then Governor-General of the British East India Company, to reallocate funds it was required to spend on education and literature in India.
According to a 1953 survey, 4,313 children of 10,112 residential school children were described as either orphans or originated from broken homes. [32] The sole residential school in Canada's Atlantic Provinces, in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, was one such school, taking in children whom child welfare agencies believed to be at risk. There is an ...
William IV: Preceded by: Lord William Bentinck: Succeeded by: The Lord Auckland: Governor of Agra; In office 14 November 1834 – 20 March 1835: Governor General: Lord William Bentinck: Preceded by: Office created: Succeeded by: William Blunt: Personal details; Born 30 January 1785 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency: Died: 5 September 1846 (aged 61)
Schools in the West: Essays in Canadian Educational History (1986) Shook, Laurence K. Catholic Post-Secondary Education in English-Speaking Canada: A History (University of Toronto Press, 1971). Stamp, Robert M. and J. Donald Wilson eds., Canadian education: A history (1970) Stamp, Robert M. The schools of Ontario, 1876-1976 (U of Toronto Press ...
Residential schools began operation in Canada in the 1880s and began to close during the end of the 20th century. [20] Residential school's main objectives were to educate Indigenous children, by teaching Euro-Canadian and Christian values and ways of living to assimilate Indigenous children into standard Canadian cultures.