The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #141133   Message #3248014
Posted By: GUEST,999
31-Oct-11 - 08:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Our Spirits Don't Speak English'
Subject: RE: BS: 'Our Spirits Don't Speak English'
From CBC archives:

"Initially, about 1,100 students attended 69 schools across the country. In 1931, at the peak of the residential school system, there were about 80 schools operating in Canada. There were a total of about 130 schools in every territory and province except Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick from the earliest in the 19th century to the last, which closed in 1996. In all, about 150,000 aboriginal, Inuit and Métis children were removed from their communities and forced to attend the schools."

So am I to understand from this that the investigation intends to locate the remains of 75,000 people?