All posts tagged assimilation

 Trigger warning: Thousands of girls and boys were raped and tortured, and many were murdered, in Canada’s aboriginal boarding schools.  In Canada, up until 1985, Christian churches ran around 100 boarding schools for aboriginal children.  Between 100,000 and 200,000 children were forced to attend these boarding schools.  Reportedly, around 50,000 aboriginal children died in these…

Prior to 1952, Canadian immigration policy engaged in racialization of potential immigrants by adopting a nationality preference system which favored European immigrants over non-Europeans. Emphasis was placed on white immigrants because they were considered to be of “superior stock,” more desirable, and more assimilable than immigrants of colour. Non-Europeans were deemed undesirable and policies were…