Teacher Resources
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Young children were separated from their parents, family, homes, and communities. Canada's Residential Schools: The History, Part 2, 1939 to 2000 (2015) continues the comprehensive historical overview of residential schools in Canada from the end of the Great Depression to the closing of the last remaining schools in the late 1990s. The report also details the legal and political actions that Aboriginal communities took when the residential schools were being closed.
Author: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
ISBN: 978-0773546523
UN Declarations and Examples
- UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- UN Conventions on the Rights of the Child
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
Subject Areas
Aboriginal Studies,
Health and Physical Education,
Mathematics
Curriculum Links by Province / Territory
| Province: |
Grades: |
Curriculum Link: |
| New Brunswick |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Alberta |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Northwest Territories |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Nova Scotia |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Ontario |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Prince Edward Island |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Québec |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Saskatchewan |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Yukon |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Manitoba |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| British Columbia |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Newfoundland and Labrador |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |
| Nunavut |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
None |