When Residential Schools Began
1870s Federal government and Plain Nations both wanted to have schooling for Aboriginal youth
Aboriginal adults assumed schooling systems would help their youth transition into the new dominating society (European-Canadians) successfully in 1867 the British North America Act and in 1876 the Indian Act was published the acts obliged the government to provide education for Aboriginal youth and teach them to be economically self-sufficient government teamed with Christian missionaries to have Aboriginal youth convert religion the first 3 schools were built in 1883 in the Prairies residential schooling was most prominent in the 1930s with 80 institutions
Roman Catholic church managed ⅗ of the schools
Anglican church
1870s Federal government and Plain Nations both wanted to have schooling for Aboriginal youth
Aboriginal adults assumed schooling systems would help their youth transition into the new dominating society (European-Canadians) successfully in 1867 the British North America Act and in 1876 the Indian Act was published the acts obliged the government to provide education for Aboriginal youth and teach them to be economically self-sufficient government teamed with Christian missionaries to have Aboriginal youth convert religion the first 3 schools were built in 1883 in the Prairies residential schooling was most prominent in the 1930s with 80 institutions
Roman Catholic church managed ⅗ of the schools
Anglican church