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The residential school provides inferior education for indigenous students, usually only in the fifth grade, focusing on cultivating students' physical labor in agriculture, light industry such as carpentry, and housework such as laundry and sewing.

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In 1969, after years of sharing power with churches, the DIA took sole control of the residential school system. The last residential school operated by the Canadian government, Gordon Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, was closed in 1996

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Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture. Although the first residential facilities were established in New France, the term usually refers to the custodial schools established after 1880.Jun 14, 2018

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Indian residential schools operated in all Canadian provinces and territories except Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. Indian residential schools operated in Canada between the 1870s and the 1990s.

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Accommodation schools systematically undermine the indigenous cultures of Canada and destroy families for generations, leading to widespread loss of language and culture. They were taken away from home and did not have the knowledge and skills to nurture their families. Because the government and the church's intention is to eliminate all aspects of the indigenous culture of these young people and to interrupt their transmission from one generation to the next.

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Indian residential school is a church-managed Indian boarding school whose nominal goal is to educate indigenous children, but also to instill them into Europe - a more destructive and equally clear goal of the Canadian and Christian lifestyles.

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Children

They are absorbed into mainstream Canadian society. The system has long forced children to separate from their families and prohibits them from recognizing their indigenous heritage and culture, or their own language. If strict rules are broken, children will be severely punished.

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1/Who was involved in the creation of the residential school system 

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1/Who was involved in the creation of the residential school system 

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Between 1925-1936. United Church Archives, Toronto, From Mission to Partnership Collection.