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Originally Posted by 81MC
I don’t know if someone who is opposed to gay rights in 2021 is a fair comparison for one who opposed sexual equality in 1850.
Also, wasn’t Ryerson long dead before any residential school was actually commissioned? And from by (very brief, probably whitewashed and Eurocentric) memory of that name, I don’t think Ryerson was some evil Indian-hating murderer? Misguided as ####, but the vilification of him specifically seems misplaced.
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I don't think it's too far off. Maybe not 2021, but 1990. Around then we were still debating a lot of the basic human rights for gay people: marriage, adoption, even legality in some places.
Women weren't allowed to attend University in Canada until 1862. This was in Ryerson's heyday as the Chief Superintendent of Education. Ryerson was specifically one of the major opponents of this and no doubt delayed women being able to go to university.