Dates
What year did Canada become a country?
What is 1867.
Approximately how many Indigenous children went through the residential school system?
What is 150,000?
An area of land that is designated for First Nations Status Indians to live on and maintain their way of life.
What is a reserve?
What was life like for the Indigenous that chose to live on their designated land?
The reserves have poor living conditions like bad housing, poor plumbing, broken roads and limited education.
What did the Truth and Reconciliation Commission do?
The commission invited residential school survivors and their families to tell their stories of their experiences in residential schools. It travelled all over Canada to listen and gather information and then it wrote a report and made recommendations.
What year did the last residential school in Canada close?
What is 1996?
The Beyond 94 website is broken into this many sections.
What is 6?
These people were set the task of enforcing the Indian Act and run the reserves.
What is an Indian Agent?
What was the residential school in North Vancouver called?
What is St. Paul’s Indian Residential School?
What year was the Indian Act enacted?
What is 1876?
Approximately how many children were reported dead by residential schools?
What is 6,000?
Declared by the Indian Act these people are considered a “ward of the state,” which means they are under control of the federal government of Canada.
What is a "Status Indian?"
This school is located on the same spot the North Vancouver residential school was once located on.
What is St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School?
What year did the residential school in North Vancouver close?
What is 1959?
How many residential schools were there across Canada?
What is 130?
To merge one group into another, so the first group disappears as a distinct people.
What is assimilation?
What is the purpose of the Beyond 94 website?
Beyond 94 represents the 94 Calls to Action, which are individual instructions to guide governments, communities and faith groups down the road to reconciliation. The website reports on the progress of the Calls to Actions.
A Canadian federal law that governs in matters pertaining to Indian status, bands, and Indian reserves.
What is the Indian Act?
Recognizing and learning about the truth and making amends for past actions. Establishing and maintaining a mutually respectful relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in this country.
What is reconciliation?
What are the names of the sections on the Beyond 94 website?
The sections are Child Welfare, Education, Language and Culture, Health, Justice, Reconciliation.