They defaced a statue in my city the other day. We didn't have a residential school here in New Brunswick. Statue is of the first Premier to our Province.
Samuel Leonard Tilley is who the statue is.
"Tilley, who died in 1896, is known as one of the fathers of Canadian confederation. He served as a federal cabinet minister during the time when the residential schools were created"
I understand all the 'fathers of confederation' were in on this, but again, there were no residential schools in New Brunswick. There's a reserve fairly close to my city ( around 2 hrs away ), right next to CFB Gagetown.
And that's it until you go way north in the province. We've never really had a problem with the natives here in NB. We've pretty much let them do their thing with the fishing and hunting; we stay outta their way, they stay outta ours for the most part.
A few years ago there was a problem with some fisheries in Burnt Church ( way up northern NB ), but the province stepped up and resolved it so everyone was happy. Haven't really had a problem with natives here, ever.
Nova Scotia and the fish stuff, different story.
The native history was actually a large part of history classes in school here as well.
They defaced a statue in my city the other day. We didn't have a residential school here in New Brunswick. Statue is of the first Premier to our Province.
Samuel Leonard Tilley is who the statue is.
"Tilley, who died in 1896, is known as one of the fathers of Canadian confederation. He served as a federal cabinet minister during the time when the residential schools were created"
I understand all the 'fathers of confederation' were in on this, but again, there were no residential schools in New Brunswick. There's a reserve fairly close to my city ( around 2 hrs away ), right next to CFB Gagetown.
And that's it until you go way north in the province. We've never really had a problem with the natives here in NB. We've pretty much let them do their thing with the fishing and hunting; we stay outta their way, they stay outta ours for the most part.
A few years ago there was a problem with some fisheries in Burnt Church ( way up northern NB ), but the province stepped up and resolved it so everyone was happy. Haven't really had a problem with natives here, ever.
Nova Scotia and the fish stuff, different story.
The native history was actually a large part of history classes in school here as well.