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Kanishka Singh

Canadian university changes name due to educator's legacy with residential schools

FILE PHOTO: The head from a Ryerson University statue of Egerton Ryerson, considered one of the architects of Canada's residential school system, is seen after its removal, at 1492 Land Back Lane reclamation camp set up by Six Nations of the Grand River in Caledonia, Ontario, Canada June 9, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

Canada's Ryerson University has changed its name to Toronto Metropolitan University after concerns over of the institution's namesake, Egerton Ryerson, who was one of the architects of the country's residential indigenous school system.

Ryerson, an educator and Methodist minister, was an architect of a system that had aimed to assimilate indigenous children so that they would lose their ties to their families and cultures.

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