<P> After a failure to assimilate Indigenous children by early missionaries in the 17th century , educational programs were not widely attempted again by religious officials until the 1820s , prior to the introduction of state - sanctioned operations . Included among them was a school established by John West , an Anglican missionary , at the Red River Colony in what is today Manitoba . Protestant missionaries also opened residential schools in the current Ontario region , spreading Christianity and working to encourage Indigenous peoples to adopt subsistence agriculture as a way to ensure they would not return to their original , nomadic ways of life upon graduation . </P>
<P> After a failure to assimilate Indigenous children by early missionaries in the 17th century , educational programs were not widely attempted again by religious officials until the 1820s , prior to the introduction of state - sanctioned operations . Included among them was a school established by John West , an Anglican missionary , at the Red River Colony in what is today Manitoba . Protestant missionaries also opened residential schools in the current Ontario region , spreading Christianity and working to encourage Indigenous peoples to adopt subsistence agriculture as a way to ensure they would not return to their original , nomadic ways of life upon graduation . </P>
when were residential schools first established in canada
when were residential schools first established in canada
the 1820s
the 1820s