Genocide of our indigenous population mostly. The worst of it ended in 1996 when the last residential school closed. Basically, the Catholic Church under the authorization of the Canadian Federal Government in the 1800s and onwards, abducted children from indigenous communities, took them to boarding schools where they attempted to assimilate them into Eurocentric culture by punishing them for speaking their own language and practicing their own culture. Beatings, sexual abuse, and neglect were commonplace, with many children dying of illness, exposure, or violence. Many children survived the schools and are still alive today to tell us about it. There are also mass graves at several of these schools where children’s corpses were dumped and hidden from public view, until ground x-ray technology came around and we found the graves.
Also, random weird fact: women weren’t allowed to have bank accounts in Canada until like 1964.
For me, in the US, Canada is like that child where, if things are quiet, you know they’re doing something bad. Because we in the US rarely ever actually hear anything bad about Canada.
The US called their residential schools “boarding schools,” but I don’t know if those had the same kind of lasting legacy Canada has, based on the schools they had in the US.
If you’re wondering why Stanwich here is acting weird, it’s a common right-wing conspiracy in Canada that these unmarked graves are “unproven” because they were discovered with ground-radar instead of dug up. They won’t accept that there were deaths at these schools until they’re dug up and the remains positively identified, at which point, one assumes, they’ll accept that the attempt at cultural genocide that went on at these schools also had a side effect of mass graves.
Or they’ll do some mental gymnastics and claim it’s all a conspiracy to make the Church look bad or that it wasn’t as bad as it is. Can’t trust conservatives to ever admit being wrong, because they almost never do.
Genocide of our indigenous population mostly. The worst of it ended in 1996 when the last residential school closed. Basically, the Catholic Church under the authorization of the Canadian Federal Government in the 1800s and onwards, abducted children from indigenous communities, took them to boarding schools where they attempted to assimilate them into Eurocentric culture by punishing them for speaking their own language and practicing their own culture. Beatings, sexual abuse, and neglect were commonplace, with many children dying of illness, exposure, or violence. Many children survived the schools and are still alive today to tell us about it. There are also mass graves at several of these schools where children’s corpses were dumped and hidden from public view, until ground x-ray technology came around and we found the graves.
Also, random weird fact: women weren’t allowed to have bank accounts in Canada until like 1964.
So this is really not about what Canada alone did, but what Catholic church and Canada did.
For me, in the US, Canada is like that child where, if things are quiet, you know they’re doing something bad. Because we in the US rarely ever actually hear anything bad about Canada.
Compared to the US which is loudly doing bad things constantly.
The US called their residential schools “boarding schools,” but I don’t know if those had the same kind of lasting legacy Canada has, based on the schools they had in the US.
Wait… it didn’t close until 1996?
Other random weird fact: Women weren’t allowed to have a bank account in the USA until 1974.
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I think thats a bit of a generalization.
Certainly not in the past, while they’ve calmed down a little with the hate these last few decades, they coming back with full force now.
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… Ok…
Fucking white males. Thank God they aren’t as racist as Asians, we’d all really be fucked then.
Canadian Federal Government? So Britain then? /S
What does that have to do with the Geneva conventions?
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Really. We found the Graves of dumped children? So we finally have a body?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57592243#:~:text=An indigenous nation in Canada says it has,at a similar residential school in British Columbia.
If you’re wondering why Stanwich here is acting weird, it’s a common right-wing conspiracy in Canada that these unmarked graves are “unproven” because they were discovered with ground-radar instead of dug up. They won’t accept that there were deaths at these schools until they’re dug up and the remains positively identified, at which point, one assumes, they’ll accept that the attempt at cultural genocide that went on at these schools also had a side effect of mass graves.
Or they’ll do some mental gymnastics and claim it’s all a conspiracy to make the Church look bad or that it wasn’t as bad as it is. Can’t trust conservatives to ever admit being wrong, because they almost never do.
Might as well post a recent and comprehensive view.