Action4Canada - June 19, 2026


Why Children Were Sent to Residential Schools

Hosted by
Tanya Gaw
Mentioned
O'Grady McKay
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Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

130.72

Word count

463

Sentence count

28

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

sentences flagged


Summary

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The Reclamare is a collection of real-life vignettes of people who were either orphaned or abandoned by their parents because of lack of support from family and society at large. They are often tragic or hilarious, depending on how they are written about.

Transcript

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00:00:00 A former social worker writes, yes, I scooped children and here's why.
00:00:05 So he said he received words some parents hadn't been seen in several days.
00:00:10 Go to the house, there's no heat, no firewood.
00:00:13 What little food there is, it's frozen.
00:00:15 Crying baby on the floor, her wet diaper frozen to the floor.
00:00:20 The police insist I accompany them at three in the morning to a rural area,
00:00:25 arrive to find a drunken orgy with children under 10 present.
00:00:30 Minus 35 Celsius, that's about minus 31 Fahrenheit.
00:00:34 Make a patrol down the alley behind beer parlors
00:00:37 and find two carloads of children in vehicles.
00:00:40 The windows are frosted over inside.
00:00:43 Children are cold and hungry.
00:00:45 Not the first time I found this situation.
00:00:47 I step into the bar and I hear,
00:00:49 uh-oh, it's the welfare.
00:00:52 After midnight at our home, so he's at his own home,
00:00:55 there's banging on the back door.
00:00:57 open it up to a girl six a boy seven who say mister come to our house there's blood all over
00:01:04 arrive at the house indeed blood and beer everywhere wall ceiling floor a crib is upside
00:01:10 down the baby is screaming i look in the bedroom i see a naked 19 year old and her boyfriend 0.57
00:01:16 having intercourse observe another female naked from the waist up in the other room 0.64
00:01:22 Police officer arrives, second day on the job, his eyes are popping. 0.98
00:01:26 Turns out the female in the other room had a breast slashed in two,
00:01:31 and this is causing the blood.
00:01:34 And he says, we tried very hard to work within community structures,
00:01:39 like within the reserve band structure.
00:01:41 Chiefs, councillors, band staff, families.
00:01:45 But because the parents were problem drinkers who fought with everyone,
00:01:48 Folks were reluctant to offer support for the children, let alone the parents.
00:01:53 We heard over and over again, I don't want to get involved.
00:01:59 So mainstream media has helped destroy Canada's identity, our proud history,
00:02:04 our heritage of educating and lifting up the poor and of saving orphaned children.
00:02:11 So this is something that the Reclamare found.
00:02:14 And if you're interested in this topic, please do follow the Reclamare.
00:02:18 He keeps finding, he or she keeps finding these wonderful vignettes of history.
00:02:23 April 17, 1947.
00:02:25 Father O'Grady, principal at Kamloops Residential School,
00:02:29 writes to Minister McKay, Indian Commissioner for B.C.
00:02:33 These children are mostly orphans,
00:02:35 and I found it difficult when requested not to accept them.
00:02:40 They would otherwise have had no one to care for them.
00:02:42 so they had 295 children
00:02:49 had per capita grants
00:02:51 because that's how the school system worked
00:02:53 but the orphans had nothing
00:02:55 they had no financial support
00:02:57 and Father O'Grady is beseeching the government
00:03:00 to provide financial support for these orphans
00:03:04 that's not genocide
00:03:07 start.