1900
1900: Thirty-nine industrial schools are operating, but there is general concern about their lack of success
1900: Thirty-nine industrial schools are operating. There is general concern about their lack of success. Students are not fitting into white society, nor doing well back in their home communities. The large drop in the native population from disease and starvation, as well as immigration that is meeting Canada's labour needs call the vocational training policy into question.
