In an August 12 media advisory, the government agency Parks Canada announced a plaque unveiling ceremony scheduled for August 14 to commemorate the “historic significance” of Manitoba’s former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential School (Portage IRS).
According to the advisory, the long-shuttered Portage IRS was built in 1914-1915 as part of a system “whereby the federal government and certain churches and religious organizations worked together to assimilate Indigenous children as part of a broad set of efforts to destroy Indigenous cultures and identities and suppress Indigenous histories.”
