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- Boarding School Opens Doors for Ontario Girls
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Boarding School Opens Doors for Ontario Girls. The Bishop Strachan School (BSS) travels Ontario to meet potential students who qualify for enrolment into the unique Boarding program at Canada's oldest private girls school.
- Former students allege psychological, physical and sexual abuse at Ont. Christian school
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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.
- Greenlanders shipped to Denmark as children seek compensation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2021
Inuit children were sent to the former colonial power as part of a failed social experiment that left them traumatised.
- Inside the US push to uncover Indigenous boarding school graves
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2021
Researchers say unmarked graves likely will be found at majority of boarding schools for Indigenous children across US.
- Laying the Children's Ghosts to Rest
Canada's Home Children in the West
Resource Type: Book
Published: 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 million or more descendants of what were derisively known in Canada as 'home children'. Writer and journalist Sean Arthur Joyce was shocked to learn in middle age that he was one of those descendants.
- Such, Such Were The Joys
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1952
George Orwell describes his experiences at an English boarding school which he attended from the age of eight to thirteen. According to Orwell, the school experience involved continual bullying, violence and sexual sadism, malnutrition, and hypocritical profession of moral principles which were contradicted by practice.
- This Benevolent Experiment
Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in the United States and Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A multi-layered comparative analysis of indigenous boarding schools in the US and Canada.
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