1922 - Publication of Dr. Peter Bryce’s The Story of a National Crime, a scathing review of residential schools 

Dr. Peter Bryce’s The Story of a National Crime exposed the federal government’s neglect and dangerous conditions in residential schools, providing one of the earliest and strongest public condemnations of Canada’s treatment of Indigenous children. Bryce was a Presbyterian Canadian physician and public health official who, as the Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Indian Affairs, became one of the earliest whistleblowers on the deadly conditions in residential schools.

Bryce, Peter. The Story of a National Crime : Being an Appeal for Justice to the Indians of Canada ; the Wards of the Nation, Our Allies in the Revolutionary War, Our Brothers-in-Arms in the Great War. John Hope and Sons, 1922. 

Photo Credit: Bryce, Peter. The Story of a National Crime : Being an Appeal for Justice to the Indians of Canada ; the Wards of the Nation, Our Allies in the Revolutionary War, Our Brothers-in-Arms in the Great War (John Hope and Sons, 1922).