Peter Bryce

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Dr.Peter Bryce was an official of the Ontario Health Department , Canada. He released his famous book in 1922 titled " The Story of a National Crime :Being a Record of the Health Conditions of the Indians of Canada from 1904 to 1921 " which exposed genocide of the aboriginals in Canada.

Dr.Bryce was hired by Indian Affairs Department in Ottawa to report on the health conditions of the Canadian residential school system in western Canada and British Columbia . His report was officially buried by the government till 1922, when Dr.Bryce who was subsequently hounded out from his service released it as a book.

Dr.Bryce claimed that Indian children were being systematically and deliberately killed in the residential schools. He cited an average mortality rate of between 30 % to 60 % .He also alleged that staff and church officials were withholding and falsifying the records of children's death.

[edit] Further reading

Annett, Kevin, "Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust" (2005)
Barman, Jean et al., eds. (1986) Indian Education in Canada. Volume 1: The Legacy. ISBN 0-7748-0243-X
Ward Churchill, Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools, City Lights Books.,U.S., 2004, ISBN 0872864340
Edwards, Brendan Frederick R. (2005). Paper Talk: a history of libraries, print culture, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada before 1960. ISBN 0-8108-5113-X
Haig-Brown, Celia. (1988). "Resistance and Renewal : Surviving the Indian Residential School." Vancouver. Tillacum Library, Arsenal Pulp Press Ltd. ISBN 0-88978-189-3
Milloy, John S. (1999). 'A National Crime': the Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986. ISBN 0-88755-646-9
Mitchell, Jennifer. "Indian Princess #134: Cultural Assimilations at St. Joseph's Mission" (2003)