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St. Mary's Indian Residential School was the name of two Indian residential schools in Mission, British Columbia. The first was operated by the Roman Catholic Church of Canada, and the second was operated by the Canadian federal government. Approximately 2,000 children attended the schools while they were in operation, [1] most of them Stó:lō.
The SJM Project arranged for schools in the Williams Lake area to wear orange shirts on September 30, in memory of the residential school victims. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] The observance of Orange Shirt Day quickly spread across Canada, and in 2021 it became a national statutory holiday, officially titled the "National Day for Truth and Reconciliation."
At the time, there were plans to search the grounds for the remains of children recorded as missing from the school. [6] The St. Anne's Indian Residential School Survivors Project was established in 2020 to plan a search for possible burial sites, spearheaded by Fort Albany in collaboration with nearby communities. [7]
BQFNC was the first Indigenous controlled and operated post secondary educational institution in Canada. [5] The brick school was built in 1931 on Blue Quills First Nation Indian Reserve and operated as a Blue Quills Indian Residential School until 1970. In July 1970 it was taken over by community members through peaceful protest and occupation.
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 ...
In the 77 years the school was open, only nine deaths there were registered with the Manitoba Vital Statistics Agency. [3] The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada found that over 120 years between 3,200 and 6,000 children died at the Residential Schools. The vast majority of deaths were due to tuberculosis and occurred prior to the ...