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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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.