CANADA
Daily Brew
Matthew Coutts | Daily Brew
Freshly studied documents on Canada’s disgraced Indian residential school system suggest more than 3,000 children died while in the imposed care of such facilities, stamping a harsh number on the cost of an often overlooked smudge on Canada’s history.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said the number has been confirmed through the study of government and school records, telling the Canadian Press that all but 500 of those left dead have been identified.
What is amazing is that this is the first time a number has been placed on residential school fatalities based on systematic research.
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