The residential school saga, by the numbers
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OTTAWA – A by-the-numbers look at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has spent six years examining Canada’s residential school system:
6 — Number of volumes in the final report, to be released later this year.
150,000 — The number of children estimated to have gone through the residential school system.
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80,000 — Estimated number of living residential school survivors.
3,200 — The number of cases in the National Residential School Student Death Register, although the estimated number of deaths is believed to be in excess of 6,000.
150 — The number of years the system lasted.
130 — The number of residential schools operated over the years.
1996 — The year the last school closed.
6,750 — The number of survivors’ statements submitted to the commission.
6 — The number of national events held by the commission during its six years of operation.
238 — The number of days of public hearings.
77 — The number of communities where hearings were held.
11,539 — Peak enrolment in residential schools in 1956-57.
37,951 — Number of claims for injuries resulting from physical and sexual abuse at residential schools filed with the Independent Assessment Process , established under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement as of Jan. 31, 2015.
30,939 — Number of those claims resolved by the end of 2014.
$2.69 million — Amount paid in compensation for those claims.
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