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The schools existed in all territories and in all but three provinces - New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland.
In the North, the residential school system also included hostels.
In 1920, Duncan Campbell Scott, the bureaucrat in charge of Canada's Indian Policy made attendance at residential school mandatory for all children between the ages of 5 and 15.
At the time he said, "Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic."
