Indian Residential School (IRS) deaths per province and territory, 1867-2000

Province/Territory	# of IRS	Named Register	Named and Unnamed Registers Combined
Alberta	25	557	821
British Columbia	18	352	580
Manitoba	14	164	338
Northwest Territories	14	190	252
Nova Scotia	1	15	15
Nunavut	14	12	15
Ontario	17	264	426
Québec	12	17	38
Saskatchewan	18	375	566
Yukon	6	29	74
Total	139	1,975	3,125

NOTES:

Total number of deaths in Residential Schools from 1867 – 2000: 3,201
TRC chair Justice Murray Sinclair said the total number of recorded residential school deaths in Canada could be an underestimate given poor record keeping, and the real number of deaths could have been five to 10 times higher
Of the 342 deaths recoded in the north (NWT, Yukon and Nunavut) 110 are unnamed
Newfoundland and Labrador was excluded from the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. See Call to Action # 29 for details on Residential Schools Class Action Settlement on May 11, 2016 and Supreme Court Mount Cashel decision finding Archdiocese of St. Johns liable for abuse on Jan. 14, 2021
According to the final report, between 1936 and 1944, 200,000 Indian Affairs files were destroyed.
The commission says government and school records failed to report the cause of death in about 43 per cent of cases.
Among cases with a reported cause of death, about half died from tuberculosis. Pneumonia and influenza combined accounted for another 10 per cent of deaths.
The Bryce Report submitted to the federal government in 1906 warned of the “unacceptably high rates of death in residential schools

Call to Action # 71 : Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76)