Statue down at Ryerson
The statue of Egerton Ryerson, father of Ontario education, has been knocked down and school officials say that it won’t be put back. Youthful anger at many things, most recently the discovery of unmarked Indigenous graves in BC, would surely lead to it being knocked down again. On this matter, the Catholic Church is avoiding an apology for the deaths which apparently occurred at a residential school run by the church. No one seems to know when or how these children died. Disease was a major cause of death during the early years of the 20th Century. It’s estimated that 50,000 died in Canada (population about eight million) during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919-1920.
