Historical figures move in and out of favour as the public’s mood rides the wild winds of change through the years. Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882), famed Methodist founder of the Ontario public school ...

Egerton Ryerson, who died in Toronto in 1882, is credited with having established Canada's residential school system. Ryerson University had previously supported a possible name change, having ...

A controversial statue of Egerton Ryerson was knocked down in Toronto on Sunday during a rally in response to the discovery of a mass grave of Indigenous children buried on the site of a former ...

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In recent weeks, the discovery of unmarked burial sites at residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan has unleashed shock, anger and grief across Canada. It’s also intensified ...

Demonstrators tore down a statue of an architect of Canada's residential school system after the discovery of 215 children's remains at a former Catholic residential school in British Columbia.