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applegrove

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5. Authorities are not speculating. I should not be either but i heard someone
Wed Jun 23, 2021, 10:44 PM
Jun 2021

talk about tb in a historical report (they have done a walking tour of the national cemetery in ottawa that highlights those public employees who were either good or bad to the indigenous as part of the Truth and Reconcilliation process and someone who was considered an advocate complained about TB and how dangerous residential schools were in that regard back at the start of the 20th Century). That is all i know.

Here is an outake from the CBC story about the Beechwood Cemetery;

"There lay Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce, who, in a 1907 report to his bosses at the Department of Indian Affairs, warned of atrocious health conditions at residential schools in Western Canada, where the mortality rate among the Indigenous children was shockingly high, largely due to tuberculosis."

Here is the link:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/beechwood-cemetery-ottawa-reconciling-history-tour-1.6060442

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