Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools: The Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Fin

by Melanie Florence

Book Overview

Canada's residential school system for aboriginal young people is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. This book documents this subject in a format that will give all young people access to this painful part of Canadian history. In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was passed by the Legislature of the Province of Canada with the aim of assimilating First Nations people. In 1879, Prime...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459408667
• ISBN13: 9781459408661
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary