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'''Peter Bryce''' (August 17, 1853 – January 15, 1932) was an official of the [[Ontario]] Health Department, [[Canada]]. He released his famous book in 1922 titled ''The Story of a National Crime: Being a Record of the Health Conditions of the Indians of Canada from 1904 to 1921'', which exposed [[genocide]] of the [[Aboriginal peoples in Canada|aboriginal]]s in Canada.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} |
'''Peter Henderson Bryce''' (August 17, 1853 – January 15, 1932) was an official of the [[Ontario]] Health Department, [[Canada]]. He released his famous book in 1922 titled ''The Story of a National Crime: Being a Record of the Health Conditions of the Indians of Canada from 1904 to 1921'', which exposed [[genocide]] of the [[Aboriginal peoples in Canada|aboriginal]]s in Canada.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} |
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Bryce was hired by Indian Affairs Department in Ottawa to report on the health conditions of the [[Canadian residential school system]] in western Canada and British Columbia . His report was officially buried by the government till 1922, when Bryce who was subsequently hounded out from his service released it as a book. |
Bryce was hired by Indian Affairs Department in Ottawa to report on the health conditions of the [[Canadian residential school system]] in western Canada and British Columbia . His report was officially buried by the government till 1922, when Bryce who was subsequently hounded out from his service released it as a book. |
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Revision as of 02:49, 17 February 2014
Peter Henderson Bryce (August 17, 1853 – January 15, 1932) was an official of the Ontario Health Department, Canada. He released his famous book in 1922 titled The Story of a National Crime: Being a Record of the Health Conditions of the Indians of Canada from 1904 to 1921, which exposed genocide of the aboriginals in Canada.[citation needed]
Bryce was hired by Indian Affairs Department in Ottawa to report on the health conditions of the Canadian residential school system in western Canada and British Columbia . His report was officially buried by the government till 1922, when Bryce who was subsequently hounded out from his service released it as a book.
Bryce claimed that Indian children were being systematically and deliberately killed in the residential schools.[citation needed] He cited an average mortality rate of between 30% to 60%. [citation needed] He also alleged that staff and church officials were withholding and falsifying the records of children's death.
See also
- List of Canadian residential schools
- United States Indian Boarding School
- New Zealand Native schools
- Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Further reading
- Barman, Jean et al., eds. (1986) Indian Education in Canada. Volume 1: The Legacy. ISBN 0-7748-0243-X
- Ward Churchill, Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools, City Lights Books.,U.S., 2004, ISBN 0-87286-434-0
- Edwards, Brendan Frederick R. (2005). Paper Talk: a history of libraries, print culture, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada before 1960. ISBN 0-8108-5113-X
- Haig-Brown, Celia. (1988). "Resistance and Renewal : Surviving the Indian Residential School." Vancouver. Tillacum Library, Arsenal Pulp PressISBN 0-88978-189-3
- Milloy, John S. (1999). 'A National Crime': the Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986. ISBN 0-88755-646-9
- Mitchell, Jennifer. "Indian Princess #134: Cultural Assimilations at St. Joseph's Mission" (2003)
External links
- Peter Henderson Bryce - Canadian Encyclopedia entry
- The story of a national crime : being an appeal for justice to the Indians of Canada ; the wards of the nation, our allies in the Revolutionary War, our brothers-in-arms in the Great War full text on archive.org
- CBC Digital Archives – A Lost Heritage: Canada's Residential Schools
- Official Residential School Settlement website