CANADA
CTV
CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013
A grim report into Canada’s residential school system should serve as a “wake-up call” to end the ignorance surrounding the dark period in the country’s history, says the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
The research released Monday shows at least 3,000 children are now known to have died while in the Indian residential schools system that started in the 1870s. The new numbers are the result of the first systematic search of government, school and other records.
Marie Wilson, commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said the numbers are shocking. Of the 3,000 confirmed to have died, she said, 500 are children whose identities remain entirely unknown.
“I hope it’s a huge wake-up call to Canada about the enormity of the impacts of the residential school story,” she told CTV’s Canada AM on Tuesday.
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