By: Ethan Dufour

Although Canada is a nice beautiful country now,it once treated its natives terribly. The children of Aboriginals were taken away to go to a boarding school. In these schools they were treated terribly. In the 1900s these children were taken and put in these schools where there culture was stripped away from them. First they would cut their hair, they thought it would get rid of the wild in them.  Then they were put in a classroom away from family where they would learn to be the canadians the government wanted them to be. In these classrooms they were beaten abused and some even killed. The last residential school closed in 1996. Survivors said they would never be the same again. Survivors also said they would abuse their children because it was what they were taught to do. Some of their children committed suicide. These horrible schools ruined lives. These native families will never be the same again. One survivor said when he was released he went back to his reserve but he only knew english and canadian culture so his family could not understand him and he ran back to the residential school because he had nowhere else to go. The government is trying to reconcile with Aboriginals by making a holiday to remember the terrible things that happened in residential schools,the Aboriginals said it will take more than that but it is a good start. This is truly Canada’s darkest secret.