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St Paul’s Indian Residential School (also known as the Squamish Indian Residential School or St. Francis Indian Residential School) was a Canadian Indian residential school and was located in the 500 Block West Keith Road at what is now the site of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in the City of North Vancouver. It was a Roman Catholic school and operated from 1899 to 1958 by the Order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The students of the school were from the adjacent Mission Reserve as well other Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh children. == History == The Parish of St Paul's was established by Father Leon Fouquet who constructed the St Paul's Indian Church which opened as a chapel in 1866. When Bishop Durieu came to the Church to work with the Squamish people he decided he wanted to provide schooling for them. He led the construction of St Paul's School, located on the Mission Reserve in North Vancouver. In 1898 he wrote to the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Child Jesus in Lepuy, France. The First three sisters arrived on October 5, 1898, making it the first school for First Nations people on the north shore. The Squamish people supported the school with food and other donations until 1900 when the Department of Indian Affairs took over administration of the school.〔 Indian Affair’s intention was to assimilate the First Nations people by denying them rights to their language, culture and traditions while forcing them to take on the take on the colonialist language, culture, traditions and Roman Catholic Religion. Residential schools were an instrumental part of the Canadian genocide of First Nations people. In 1920 the Indian Act was amended and Canadian federal legislation making it mandatory for every Indian child to be sent to residential schools upon reaching 7 years of age until 16 years of age. Most of children came from the surrounding Squamish Nation reserves along the Burrard Inlet, Howe Sound, and the Squamish River. Other students were from the Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations, and some came from as far away as the Lil'wat (Mount Currie) band, near Pemberton, as well as the Shishalh (Sechelt) and Sto:lo peoples. Over 2000 students in six generations attended the school, arriving at between 4 and 6 years of age. The students stayed until the eighth grade, or until the age of 16 very few made it to twelfth grade graduation. Children in the school were segregated by age group and gender and were often not permitted to visit other family members in the school. They were stripped of their culture and were abused as punishment for taking part in their own language or cultural traditions. There are many reports of physical, sexual and emotional abuse taking place in residential schools as well as documented homicides, sterilization, medical experimentation, malnutrition, and neglect.〔 The fatality rate in residential schools consistently sat between 40-60% for the duration of their existence in Canada, deaths were often covered up as cases pneumonia, with most records of the victims since destroyed.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Paul’s Indian Residential School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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