Boarding Schools

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Laying the Children's Ghosts to Rest: Canada's Home Children in the West
Joyce, Sean Arthur
Book
2014
Between 1869 and the early 1930s more than 100,000 children were rounded up from the streets of Britain to be used as labourers in Canadian homes; often little more than slaves. Today there are two mi...
This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in the United States and Canada
Woolford, Andrew
Book
2015
A multi-layered comparative analysis of indigenous boarding schools in the US and Canada.

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Former students allege psychological, physical and sexual abuse at Ont. Christian school
Malarek, Victor
2016
Alumni of Grenville Christian College in Brockville, Ontario recount disturbing stories, including allegations of physical, sexual and psychological abuse during the 1970s, 80's and 90's.