Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) is an agreement between the Government of Canada and approximately 86,000 Native Canadians who at some point were enrolled as children in the Canadian Indian residential school system, a system which was in place between 1879 and 1996. The IRSSA recognized the damage inflicted by the residential schools and established a $2 billion compensation package for all former IRS students and, in particular, those who had been abused or otherwise harmed. The agreement, announced in 2006, was the largest class action settlement in Canadian history. As of December 2012 a total of $1.62 billion has been paid to 78,750 former students.
Craigerne Residential School
Craigerne was opened as a residential school for boys with emotional difficulties April 1956. Over the years hundreds of boys went through its doors through the sixties and seventies. In the winter of 1982, the school had a major renovation, with a new assembly hall-cum-gymnasium, and improved classroom facilities, funded by a grant from the Scottish Education Department. There were at the time 25 students.