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Notes on Translation
The electronic translation service on the York Region District School Board's website is hosted by Google Translate. The quality of the translation will vary in some of the languages offered by Google. Google Translate is a free service and currently offers translation in over 50 languages, although an impressive number, this does not capture all languages or dialects. The basic translation’s goal is to capture the general intention of the original English material.
The York Region District School Board does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of any translated information. Before you act on translated information, the Board encourages you to confirm any facts that are important to you and affect any decisions you may make.
The York Region District School Board is committed to parent, family and community engagement, and it is our hope that by providing this tool on our website that we are making our information more accessible to families whose first language is not English and thereby enabling better engagement in public education.
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Schoolhouse Desks
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Schoolhouse Desks
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The desks were used by students at Buttonville and across Canada in the 1800s. Most desks were made by the Globe Furniture Company of Waterloo, Ontario from 1910-68. They also made church pews and pulpits. Globe furniture was sold all over Canada and as far away as South Africa and Peru.
Images courtesy of the Waterloo Public Library
The desks came from St. Peter Claver’s (later renamed Charles Garnier) Residential School in Spanish, ON. The school was in operation from 1913-58. Residential schools were created by the federal government in an attempt to erase aboriginal traditions, ways of living and languages. 150 000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children attended residential schools between 1857 and 1996 when the last school closed.
Desks had to be arranged “in ten rows, with 5 desks and a front and rear seat to each row.”
What was it like?
Residential Schools were boarding schools run by the Federal Government and the Jesuit, Anglican, Methodist, and Catholic churches. The schools' programs involved scholastic instruction, religious conversion and rigorous chores. Children were often placed at schools very far from their homes and rarely saw their families. They were not permitted to speak their native language and were forced to speak English or French.
Cree child, Thomas Moore, before and after his admittance to the Regina Indian Industrial Residential School c.1897.
(Images: Saskatchewan Archives Board R-A8223-1, R-A8223-2)
Additional Resources:
For more information on Residential Schools, please visit:
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