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Genocide of our indigenous population mostly. The worst of it ended in 1996 when the last residential school closed. Basically, the Catholic Church under the authorization of the Canadian Federal Government in the 1800s and onwards, abducted children from indigenous communities, took them to boarding schools where they attempted to assimilate them into Eurocentric culture by punishing them for speaking their own language and practicing their own culture. Beatings, sexual abuse, and neglect were commonplace, with many children dying of illness, exposure, or violence. Many children survived the schools and are still alive today to tell us about it. There are also mass graves at several of these schools where children's corpses were dumped and hidden from public view, until ground x-ray technology came around and we found the graves.
Also, random weird fact: women weren't allowed to have bank accounts in Canada until like 1964.
For me, in the US, Canada is like that child where, if things are quiet, you know they're doing something bad. Because we in the US rarely ever actually hear anything bad about Canada.
Compared to the US which is loudly doing bad things constantly.
So this is really not about what Canada alone did, but what Catholic church and Canada did.
The US called their residential schools "boarding schools," but I don't know if those had the same kind of lasting legacy Canada has, based on the schools they had in the US.
Wait… it didn’t close until 1996?
Other random weird fact: Women weren't allowed to have a bank account in the USA until 1974.
Women weren’t allowed to have a bank account in the USA until 1974.
Except it was effectively true, because banks were allowed to consider marital status as a risk factor. That was made illegal in 1974. It's in your own article.
The article says the 1974 law concerns credit applications, not bank accounts
I'm going need a 90 minute documentary and a giant bowl of popcorn to absorb all this
Are you going to give someone a checkbook without checking their credit? A checkbook was ye old credit card, and a checking account was how you got it.
Except it was effectively true,
Only in the same way it was true that men couldn't vote in the US until shortly before the Civil War. Because before that most states didn't have state laws mandating that all free male citizens be allowed to vote.
I don't know what to tell you. At least one of my grandmothers needed their husband's signature to open a bank account in the 60's, and it wasn't because she didn't have assets in her name.
Any chance you have a link to a reputable source, or a site anyone else besides you has heard of?
Not without their husband's permission. That is to say, they were allowed as long as their husband was happy with their wifely performance.
Canadian Federal Government? So Britain then? /S
okay but what did Canada do wrong tho?
Didn't hide it well enough.
https://lemm.ee/comment/5632652
This seems to be the only comment chain that actually explains it, the rest of this post is mostly Americans bringing up every crime and misdeed that Canada has ever participated in or even is connected to.
Sorry you got downvoted for bringing up the point of the original post, which was the title and linked image, everyone else on their hate parade and is too busy.
Oh I don't I'm just trolling the hippies.
Really. We found the Graves of dumped children? So we finally have a body?
If you're wondering why Stanwich here is acting weird, it's a common right-wing conspiracy in Canada that these unmarked graves are "unproven" because they were discovered with ground-radar instead of dug up. They won't accept that there were deaths at these schools until they're dug up and the remains positively identified, at which point, one assumes, they'll accept that the attempt at cultural genocide that went on at these schools also had a side effect of mass graves.
Or they'll do some mental gymnastics and claim it's all a conspiracy to make the Church look bad or that it wasn't as bad as it is. Can't trust conservatives to ever admit being wrong, because they almost never do.