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Notes1 Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada [IRSRC] (2006). Indian Residential SchoolsSettlement Agreement. Retrieved 7 October 2008 from: http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/rqpi/content/pdf/english/IRSSA%20Settlement%20Agreement/IRSSA-Settlement.pdf2 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (no date). Indian Residential Schools ResolutionCanada 2007-2008 Departmental Performance Report. Retrieved 31 March 2009 from:http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/dpr-rmr/2007-2008/inst/ira/ira-eng.pdf3 See Appendix 2.4 Government of Canada (2007). Application for Common Experience Payment for FormerStudents Who Resided at Indian Residential School(s). Retrieved 7 October 2008 from:http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/rqpi/content/pdf/english/Service%20Can%20Former%20Students%20Eng.pdf5 During the 1940s to 1960s, under the leadership of Maurice Duplessis, the Quebecgovernment was responsible for having healthy orphaned children diagnosed asmentally challenged and having them sent to psychiatric institutions. Many had sufferedfrom physical and sexual abuse while at these institutions. For more information on theDuplessis orphans, see: Roy, Bruno (1994). Memoire d’asile: La Tragedie des enfants deDuplessis. Les Éditions du Boréal; and Perry, J. Christopher, John J. Sigal, Sophie Boucher,and Nikolas Paré (2006). Seven Institutionalized Children and Their Adaptation in LateAdulthood: The Children of Duplessis (Les Enfants de Duplessis). Psychiatry 69(4):283–301.6 The “Barnardo children” were young British children sent to live and work in Canada andAustralia between 1870 and 1939. Approximately 30,000 children, considered orphanedbut many were from foster homes, had been shipped to Canada and, once there, wereneglected, abused, and treated as servants. For more information, see: Bagnell, Kenneth(2001). The Little Immigrants: The Orphans who came to Canada. Toronto, ON: DundurnPress Ltd.; and Corbett, Gail H. (2002). Nation Builders: Barnardo Children in Canada.Toronto, ON: Dundurn Press Ltd.7 Between 1898 and 1990, the Christian Brothers of Ireland in Canada operated the MountCashel Orphanage, a facility for boys in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In the late 1980s,allegations of sexual abuse began to surface. An investigation by a royal commissionfound that there was evidence of abuse, and eventually nine Christian brothers wereconvicted and sentenced. The institution was subsequently closed in 1990, and theGovernment of Newfoundland has since paid compensation to the victims. For moreinformation, see: Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Response of the NewfoundlandCriminal Justice System to Complaints (1991). Volume One: Report. St. John’s, NL: Officeof the Queen’s Printer; Harris, Michael (1990). Unholy Orders: Tragedy at Mount Cashel.Markham, ON: Penguin Books; and Berry, Jason and Andrew M. Greely (2000). Lead UsNot Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children. Champaign, IL:University of Illinois Press.144 | Peter Harrison