A National Crime : The Canadian Government And The Residential School System, 1879 to 1986

Milloy offers an in-depth examination of the evolution, operation, and eventual dismantling of Canada’s residential school system. Drawing extensively on government records compiled for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the study is arranged in three major sections: the emergence of federal policy in the late nineteenth century; the day-to-day realities and administrative framework of residential schooling up to the mid-twentieth century; and the system’s protracted decline leading to its closure. The work provides a detailed account of policy formation, funding structures, institutional conditions, and the governmental rationale that shaped residential schooling across more than a century.