During the Queens visit to Toronto native Canadians protest the shameful practice of residential schooling during the 19th and 20th century.

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A group of Native Indian protest residential schools during the Queens visit to Canada. This disgraceful chapter in Canadian history was practiced by the government during the late nineteenth century and continued into part of the twentieth century. During this time thousands of children were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in British style religious schools in the hopes that they would discard their native heritage and more easily assimilate into a Canadian English society. Unfortunately widespread emotional abuse, beatings, and allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of the administrators was the result. Surprisingly, the last school of this type closed in 1996 in New Brunswick.

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Size: 2592px × 3872px
Location: Church street Toronto Ontario Canada
Photo credit: © Steven Chadwick / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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