CA-K399Institutions
Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, Confederation and residential schools
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Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, a Father of Confederation, attended all three conferences leading to 1867, helped draft the 72 Resolutions and led the Quebec Conservatives for nearly two decades. As Minister of Public Works, he called in 1883 for Indigenous children to be removed from their homes for assimilation and announced three industrial schools in the Northwest, part of the residential school system’s devastating expansion.
Scope & context
Langevin’s role as recognized in the 2023 reviewed designation, not the residential school system as a whole (see CA-K029).
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