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There were a total of 130 residential schools operating by 1831 and the Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ontario, accepted its first boarding students in 1831. -
The government was required to provide Indigenous youth with an education and to assimilate them into Canadian society. -
Residential schools were made to ¨take the Indian out" of the indigenous kids and teach them Euro-Canadian culture. -
13 children died from a combination of measles and whooping cough at the Lytton school. -
The residential school system totaled 80 institutions by 1930. -
Research by food historian Ian Mosby (published in 2013) revealed that students at some residential schools in the 1940s were subjected to nutritional experiments without their consent or the consent of their parents. -
In the late 1950s, residential schools operated on a half-day system, in which students spent half the day in the classroom and the other at work. -
Only from the 1960s on did the schools routinely send children home for holidays. -
Beginning of the 1990s, former students demanded that government and churches publicly acknowledge their role in the schools and provide compensation for their suffering. -
The last residential school closed in 1996. Which ended the torture to the indigenous people. -
The federal government established a $1.9 billion compensation package for the survivors of abuse at residential schools. -
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, apologized on behalf of the Government of Canada to all former students of residential schools in Canada. -
The federal government announced it is designating two former residential schools —Shubenacadie Residential School in Nova Scotia and Portage La Prairie Residential School in Manitoba as national historic sites.