Canada's residential schools : the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume 4 Missing children and unmarked burials

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. (author,, issuing body.).

Summary: "Canada's Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials is the first systematic effort to record and analyze deaths at the [residential] schools, and the presence and condition of student cemeteries, within the regulatory context in which the schools were intended to operate ... The failure to establish and enforce adequate standards of care, coupled with the failure to adequately fund the schools, resulted in unnecessarily high death rates at residential schools. Senior government and church officials were well aware of the schools' ongoing failure to provide adequate levels of custodial care. Children who died at the schools were rarely sent back to their home community. They were usually buried in school or nearby mission cemeteries. As the schools and missions closed, these cemeteries were abandoned. While in a number of instances Aboriginal communities, churches, and former staff have taken steps to rehabilitate cemeteries and commemorate the individuals buried there, most of these cemeteries are now disused and vulnerable to accidental disturbance. In the face of this abandonment, the TRC is proposing the development of a national strategy for the documentation, maintenance, commemoration, and protection of residential school cemeteries"--Publisher's description

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Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston : Published for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString.july.23 Issued also in print form. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Executive summary. 1 Statistical analysis -- 2. Operational politics and custodial care -- 3. Where are the children buried? Cemeteries and unmarked burials -- Appendices. 1. Canada's residential schools -- 2. Schools destroyed by fire: 1867 to 1997 -- 3. Outbuildings destroyed by fire : 1867 to 1997 -- 4. Additional reported fires that did not destroy buildings : 1867 to 1997 -- 5. School fires that were suspected or proven to be deliberately set : 1867 to 1997.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Cumulative Index/Finding Aids Note:	An index to this volume of the final report is available online. Please visit it http://nctr.ca/trc_reports.php.