Report on the Indian schools of Manitoba and the North-West Territories
By: by P.H. Bryce
Contributors: Canada. Department of Indian Affairs
Publisher: Government Printing Bureau
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Health Status Indicators; Indians of North America; Native peoples; Off-reservation boarding schools; Residential schools; Education; North American Indians
Description: Early report on the Indian residential schools in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories conducted by the Chief Medical Office or the Department of Indian Affairs. The author details the history of the Residential Schools, discusses their condition, and describes in the health of the pupils. He finds a high and unacceptable death rate from tuberculosis due to the poor conditions under which the students are forced to live.
Notes: Purchase; Anson-Cartwright; 1983; RB125409.