Canada Wanted to Close All Its Residential Schools in the 1940s. Here’s Why It Couldn’t

Published on March 17, 2024

Commentary In 1942 during the darkest days of the Second World War, the House of Commons took the heroically optimistic step of convening a special committee to “study and report upon the general problems of reconstruction and re-establishment which may arise at the termination of the present war.” By February 1944 the Committee on Reconstruction and Re-Establishment turned its attention to Canada’s now-notorious Indian Residential School system. The opinion expressed was clear and pointed. “I do not like residential schools at all,” Saskatchewan MP Dorise Nielsen declared. The federal bureaucrats who appeared before the committee agreed, and recommended the schools all be shut down and that indigenous students moved to on-reserve day schools, where they could live with their parents....

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