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Suffer the Children: The Tragic Fate of Vulnerable Kids in Canadian Governmental Care

Khalid Elhassan December 14, 2024 13 min

Canada - Children in an Indian Residential School — Children in an Indian Residential School. Encyclopedia Britannica

4. A Bombing Campaign in Rural Canada

Canada - A Doukhobor child and his burned out home, 1962 — A Doukhobor child and his burned out home, 1962. Matador Network

The violence continued, however, and culminated in a series of 259 bombings in 1962 in just one region of British Columbia. Targets included railways, power lines and stations, ferries, courthouses, hotels, and the destruction of entire villages. The authorities finally decapitated the sect in March, 1962, with the arrest of sixty of its leaders, whom they charged with conspiracy to intimidate the Canadian Parliament and the Legislature of British Columbia. With their leaders locked up, the remaining Doukhobors rapidly assimilated into Canadian society. Relative peace has reigned since, and Canadian Spirit Warrior numbers have dwindled from a peak of 40,000 in the twentieth century to about 2,200 in 2011.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.