Residential Schools Are a Pestilential Death Trap

In 1907, a government medical inspector named Ph Bryce reported that 24% of the time in Canada, when a previously healthy Aboriginal trial died, they died in a residential school. Students who were sent away from the school back home died with their parents and stayed out of government statistics. There are credible estimates that place the death toll at well over 6,000 children. When smallpox or tuberculosis would sweep through a school, surviving students were often enlisted to hide the corpses of their classmates from prying eyes.