Brandon Indian Residential School: (1895 -1972) - (a.k.a.: Brandon Industrial Institute) - Manitoba


28:30 One of the measures of success of the Methodist administrators was the suitability of students to be employed as servants in the household of the principal, ... The school was productive, ...


But the children were often starved, reduced to eating stolen potatoes raw.

"The Brandon Indian Residential School" was a former residential school, located in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It was a part of the former Canadian Indian residential school system. Five kilometres northwest of Brandon, Manitoba, the "Brandon Indian Institute" was established in 1895, by the Department of Indian Affairs. The school closed, in 1972. From 1895 to 1925, the Mission Board of the Methodist Church initially managed the school, which, was originally intended for children from north of Lake Winnipeg. The United Church of Canada ran the school from 1925 to 1969 and the Catholic Church's, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, from 1969 to 1972. 

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada found that over the 120 years of the Canadian residential school program, that 3,200 children "minimum" died, at residential schools. "One in 50 students", which is comparable to the death rate of Canadian POWs in Nazi custody. An investigation of cemeteries and unmarked graves at the Brandon school site began in 2012, a collaboration of the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation (SVDN) and researchers from Simon Fraser University, Brandon University and the University of Windsor, with the goal of identifying the children buried on the site. A statement by SVDN Chief Jennifer Bone said, that the project had identified 104 potential graves, in three cemeteries. Official cemetery and burial records account, for only 78. In addition to two previously known cemeteries, the project has found a possible, third burial site. The project received funding to continue its work in April 2019, but, work has been delayed, due, to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the burial grounds is now an RV campground (*which really needs to be addressed immediately, by the federal government)

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