Nation Northwestern Ontario: The philanthropist was trying to develop a hydro project in the region, and the First Nations elders gave him an eagle feather and an Anishinaabe name to give him strength, according to Globe and Mail. Bryce is a tribute to Peter Henderson Bryce, the chief medical officer with the departments of the interior and Indian affairs from 1904 to 1907, who sounded the alarm about the large number of aboriginal children in the church-run residential schools who were dying of disease, especially tuberculosis. Dan three years ago by a medicine man in the Lac La Croix First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. Duncan Campbell Scott, the architect of the Indian residential school system, cut the funding for Dr. But in 1922, Dr. Bryce research in 1913, saying the costs far exceeded the benefits.
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