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Originally Posted by GGG
This needs deaths per student comparisons with Canadian Catholic schools if you want to use a “similar treatment as non indigenous people”.
If you read Ryersons writings he held that the treatment of indigoness people would be intentionally different.
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In Ireland, 9,000 of 57,000 children who passed through the homes died, or 16 per cent.
In Canada, an estimated 6,000 (records are incomplete) of 150,000 children who passed through residential schools died, or 4 per cent.
The higher fatality rate in Ireland is likely due to the fact the homes included newborns and babies, and the infant mortality rate in Ireland in the early 20th century was very high. Whereas Canada’s residential schools included few pre-school aged children. So it’s difficult to make exact comparisons.