Share this Story: Wayne K. Spear: Reckoning with Egerton Ryerson's influence on residential schoolsWayne K. Spear: Reckoning with Egerton Ryerson's influence on residential schools Photo by Olivier Monnier / AFP via Getty ImagesArticle content This week’s felling of an Egerton Ryerson statue at an eponymous Toronto university, and its repurposing as a memorial for the remains of 215 children discovered in unmarked graves in Kamloops is the latest reckoning of the Indian Residential School System. Try refreshing your browser, or Wayne K. Spear: Reckoning with Egerton Ryerson's influence on residential schools Back to videoAdvertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Although the residential school system was established in 1892, there were of course residential schools long before this. The longest continuously-operated residential school was at Brantford, where construction of the Mohawk Institute began in 1828. Wayne K. Spear is a Toronto-based writer and commentator who has conducted extensive research into Canada’s residential school system.

Source: National Post June 09, 2021 10:03 UTC