Exhibit
Assimilation
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An ideal role model for young Aboriginal girls attending residential schools, St. Mary's Academy, Ottawa, Ontario, March 1870.
Photographer: William James Topley
Library and Archives Canada, PA-032891
Sessional Papers
Sessional Papers, Report on the Fort Qu'Appelle Indian Industrial School, Rev. Hugonnard, Principal, vol. XIX, no. 4, 1886, p. 138: "I feel certain that this school will be a great success, and that it will be a chief means of civilizing the Indian; but to obtain this result, accommodation must be made to take in more pupils, as now we can only take in but one out of each reserve. A school for Indian girls would be of great importance, and I may say, would be absolutely necessary to effect the civilization of the next generation of Indians, if the women were educated it would almost be a guarantee that their children would be educated also and brought up Christians, with no danger of their following the awful existence that many of them ignorantly live now. It will be nearly futile to educate the boys and leave the girls uneducated".
