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Sessional Papers, Report by A.E. Forget, Indian Commissioner, vol. XXXI, no. 11, 1897, Education, p. 291: "This branch of the Indian service has ever been recognized as one of the most, if not perhaps the most, important feature of the extensive system which is operating towards the civilization of our native races, having its beginning in small things -- the first step being the establishment of reserve day-schools of limited scope and influence, the first forward step was the founding of boarding-schools both on and off the reserves.
Métis family at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, 1899.
Photographer:unknown
Glenbow Archives, NA-949-118
The beneficent effect of these becoming at once apparent, an impetus was thus given to the movement in the direction of industrial training, which was at once entered upon the establishment of our earlier industrial institutions ... until today the Dominion has had at its command a system which provides for its Indian wards a practical course of industrial training, fitting for useful citizenship the youth of a people who one generation past were practically unrestrained savages".
