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Macdonald's supposed contributions stand in stark contrast to his position and actions against Canada's Aboriginal peoples [1]. He commissioned the "Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds" (the so-called Davin Report) which he later used as justification for the institution of Indian Residential Schools, a system which persisted well into the twentieth century and decimated Canadian Aboriginal families, an effect that is felt to this day [6].

Macdonald commissioned Nicholas Flood Davin to write the "Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds" (now known as the "Davin Report")[2], which was submitted to Ottawa in March 1879 [3]. Macdonald later used this report to institute the Indian residential school system in Canada [7][2]. Macdonald had stated:

"When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly impressed upon myself, as head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men." [4][5]

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2 Milloy, J. S. (1999). A national crime: The Canadian government and the residential school system, 1879 to 1986 (Vol. 11). Univ. of Manitoba Press.

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