<P> The Shubenacadie Indian Residential School was part of the Canadian Indian residential school system and was located in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia . It was the only one in Atlantic Canada and children from across the region were placed in the institution . The schools were funded through Indian Affairs and the Catholic Church . The institution was like an orphanage, which were the forerunners of contemporary child protection and welfare services . The first children arrived on February 5, 1930 and the institution was closed after 37 years on June 22, 1967 . Approximately 10% of Mi'kmaq children lived at the institution . (Approximately 30% of native children were placed in residential schools nationally .) Over 1000 children are estimated to have been placed in the institution over 37 years . </P> <P> Contemporary opinions of the institutions range from National Chief Phil Fontaine comparing it to "genocide" to the aboriginal affairs minister John Duncan describing it as "an education policy gone wrong ". As the institution was moved out of poverty and away from corporal punishment in the 1950s and 60s, predictability, Mi'kmaq people's memories of the school improved . One Mi'kmaq woman who attended the institution from 1955 - 1962 spoke positively about attending the school, preferring it over living in the poverty on her reserve . </P>

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