Within the context of pre-confederation residential schools, the missionaries of the New England Company had for mission to propagate the gospel of Christianity following the defeat of the British in the American war of independence in 1787. The protestant missionaries then moved to Sussex Vale, New Brunswick in order to establish a school for the local Indigenous. Following the end of their education, children enrolled in this school would return to their communities in the hopes of converting more people to Protestantism and the promotion of a ‘settled lifestyle’. However, over the span of…