Tag Archive | Canada
02/04/2023  

938. Huronia Regional Center

Huronia Regional Center was also known as  Ontario Hospital School and Orillia Asylum for Idiots was opened in 1876. It closed in 2009.

It has its own cemetery consisting of 1440 unmarked graves and 571 numbered graves. Some have since been removed.

After the closure the authorities apologizes and compensated some of the victims for the abuse they suffered at the facility.

It could not have been fun to be there as a child.

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01/05/2022  

890. Mount Cashel Orphanage

Mount Cashel Orphanage also known as Mount Cashel Boys Home was located in St. Johns, Canada. It was open between 1898 and 1990 and operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers.

Starting in 1975 the authorities began an investigation into child abuse. A number of further investigations resulted in a number of lawsuits and convicts.

It could not have been fun to be there as a student.

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10/04/2022  

887. Marieval Indian Residential School

This is the second boarding school campus where unmarked graves have been located. Beside teaching in ordinary school subjects the aim with the school was to eliminate the culture of the students.

The identity of the people who were put into the 751 unmarked graves is not known nor how they ended up there.

The students were kept away from their family and the conditions were not healthy.

It could not have been fun to be there as a child.

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20/02/2022  

880. Kamloops Indian Residential School

2021 became the year where 215 graves were discovered at the place which once housed Kamloops Indian Residential School. The school opened in 1890 and operations shut down in 1978. As with many residentials schools in Canada also many of the children attending the school were forced away from their parents. They were punished if they spoke their native language. If some cases students were abused by the employees, even sexual abuse took place.

How the 215 children died is not known. Survivors of the school believed that they had run away.

It is very safe to assume that it could not have been a fun place to be as a child.

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09/01/2022  

874. Xyolhemeylh aka Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children and Family Services Society

Xyolhemeylh aka Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children and Family Services Society was only provide a mother her sons clothes and few personal properties when she came to the group home where he was placed. The reason for that was that her son had died. The authorities were quick to have him cremated so an autopsy was not possible.

Later journalists after som investigation were able to connect other deaths with this firm who cashes in from the tax-payers money.

However, all the money and research did not help 17-year-old Traevon Chalifoux-Desjarlais. He remains dead and his relatives must live with the grief for the rest of their lives.

When nothing seems to be investigated properly when a child dies, it is safe to say that it cannot be fun to be there as a teenager.

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23/06/2020  

790. Cité de st-jean-de-dieu insane asylum

The Cité de st-jean-de-dieu insane asylum earlier known as the Longue Pointe Lunatic Asylum was one of facilities that housed the so-called Duplessis Orphans in Canada. Under the rule of Maurice Duplessis the government sought to save money on the social welfare budget and got the Roman Catolic Church to run asylums. The children who ended up there were sent for a number of reasons but basically because they could be warehoused cheap until they became adults.

It would require more than one post to describe the ordeal the children went through but there were examples of use of lobotomies, electroshock and straitjackets. As when the church is involved there were also examples of abuse, sometime physical.

It could not have been fun to be there as a child

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18/11/2018  

741. St. Michael’s College School

At St. Michael’s College School they focused on sport. In fact they focused on sport and winning so much that the students suffered. Forms of punishment which can be called forms of corporal punishment was metered up and used for at least 50 years.

One thing is when the employees abuse the student. Another is when the school teaches the students to abuse other students in the name of success.

It could not have been fun to be there as a student.

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01/10/2018  

731. Ontario’s child welfare system

Ontario, which is a part of Canada is set to have a child welfare system. It is certainly not a system you want to be part of if you are a teenager.

Placing a child in a random place hundreds of miles away from the family and friends and not providing education to the foster parents is almost planning that the children should not survive to grow up and become adults. Suicides count for some of the deaths.

The system could be better put together but as always it is properly about the money and how you can save most.

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31/12/2017  

638. Pine Ridge Training School

Located on an area where they used to house prisoners of war during the second world war, a training school housed teenagers until some time in 1980’s.

Many years after the closure it seems that the training schools housed adults who molested and abused the teenagers. Various forms of sexual exploitation took place against the teenagers. It marked them for decades afterward.

The worst part is that Pine Ridge Training School was only one of these schools. More horror testimonies are expected in the future.

It could not have been a fun place to be as a teenager.

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30/10/2017  

618. Jehovah’s Witnesses in Canada

This problem is currently under investigation in Canada but could sadly apply to Jehovah’s Witnesses in other countries too. The problem is that the religion allows a parallel court system to function instead of involving the police from the very start and let them investigate when sexual child abuse occur.

The children should be allowed to report their abusers to the police. They should be allowed to get real justice and see that their abusers go to prison. This religion robs the children of justice.

It cannot be fun to be part of what we will call a cult as long as they do not give up their internal court system and bring conflicts to the official courts to be solved.

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