On the left appears the school and Council House, and on the right the Church. All too often the missionaries gave little allowance to the ancient customs and beliefs of Indian students in their schools. By trying to eliminate the native culture do you think that the missionaries unconsciously served to destroy the natives' self-confidence? For information on the missionaries' endeavours to educate Indian children in early Ontario, see J. Donald Wilson, "No Blanket to be Worn in School: The Education of Indians in Early Nineteenth-Century Ontario", Social History, 7, 14 (1974): 293-304.
