Action4Canada - June 19, 2026


Why Children Were Sent to Residential Schools


Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

130.72

Word count

463

Sentence count

29

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

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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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00:00:00.000 A former social worker writes, yes, I scooped children and here's why.
00:00:05.480 So he said he received words some parents hadn't been seen in several days.
00:00:10.600 Go to the house, there's no heat, no firewood.
00:00:13.640 What little food there is, it's frozen.
00:00:15.840 Crying baby on the floor, her wet diaper frozen to the floor.
00:00:20.520 The police insist I accompany them at three in the morning to a rural area,
00:00:25.840 arrive to find a drunken orgy with children under 10 present.
00:00:30.640 Minus 35 Celsius, that's about minus 31 Fahrenheit.
00:00:34.800 Make a patrol down the alley behind beer parlors
00:00:37.680 and find two carloads of children in vehicles.
00:00:40.660 The windows are frosted over inside.
00:00:43.140 Children are cold and hungry.
00:00:45.120 Not the first time I found this situation.
00:00:47.660 I step into the bar and I hear,
00:00:49.780 uh-oh, it's the welfare.
00:00:52.320 After midnight at our home, so he's at his own home,
00:00:55.740 there's banging on the back door.
00:00:57.140 open it up to a girl six a boy seven who say mister come to our house there's blood all over
00:01:04.100 arrive at the house indeed blood and beer everywhere wall ceiling floor a crib is upside
00:01:10.800 down the baby is screaming i look in the bedroom i see a naked 19 year old and her boyfriend 0.57
00:01:16.300 having intercourse observe another female naked from the waist up in the other room 0.64
00:01:22.260 Police officer arrives, second day on the job, his eyes are popping. 0.98
00:01:26.900 Turns out the female in the other room had a breast slashed in two,
00:01:31.180 and this is causing the blood.
00:01:34.680 And he says, we tried very hard to work within community structures,
00:01:39.020 like within the reserve band structure.
00:01:41.620 Chiefs, councillors, band staff, families.
00:01:45.200 But because the parents were problem drinkers who fought with everyone,
00:01:48.800 Folks were reluctant to offer support for the children, let alone the parents.
00:01:53.660 We heard over and over again, I don't want to get involved.
00:01:59.040 So mainstream media has helped destroy Canada's identity, our proud history,
00:02:04.820 our heritage of educating and lifting up the poor and of saving orphaned children.
00:02:11.960 So this is something that the Reclamare found.
00:02:14.660 And if you're interested in this topic, please do follow the Reclamare.
00:02:18.260 He keeps finding, he or she keeps finding these wonderful vignettes of history.
00:02:23.160 April 17, 1947.
00:02:25.960 Father O'Grady, principal at Kamloops Residential School,
00:02:29.520 writes to Minister McKay, Indian Commissioner for B.C.
00:02:33.280 These children are mostly orphans,
00:02:35.700 and I found it difficult when requested not to accept them.
00:02:40.240 They would otherwise have had no one to care for them.
00:02:42.880 so they had 295 children
00:02:49.160 had per capita grants
00:02:51.140 because that's how the school system worked
00:02:53.380 but the orphans had nothing
00:02:55.440 they had no financial support
00:02:57.500 and Father O'Grady is beseeching the government
00:03:00.860 to provide financial support for these orphans
00:03:04.740 that's not genocide
00:03:07.780 start.