McMurtry: Exposing False Narratives

Jim McMurtry has dedicated his life to teaching historical truths. He is a steadfast warrior standing tall in his convictions against the gasping, whimpering left who will eventually expire under the tsunami of prevailing truths.

One fateful day in late May 2021, as I was teaching Calculus 12 …, news was feverishly spread about the “discovery” of the “remains” of 215 children in a “mass grave” at the site of the long-shuttered Kamloops Indian Residential School. The principal used the PA system to ask teachers to stop their regular instruction to navigate the disturbing news with students.

As I had done a Master’s thesis on Indian Educational Policy … and course work in Indigenous studies as a doctoral student at the University of Toronto, I felt informed on the subject of residential schools and spoke about their inception, the dislocation and despair of prairie First Nations (most residential schools being located in the West), the Indian Act (1876) and its authors’ intentions to support Canada’s most marginalized communities, the role of the church as teachers and proselytizers, and the many reports of abuse and neglect.

A … student, flush with anger and indignancy, reacted to my comment that children who died tragically while enrolled in residential schools did so mostly from disease … I had committed the cardinal sin of questioning the narrative of mass murder at the Kamloops Indian Residential School …. On June 1, 2021, I received a Letter of Investigation announcing an indefinite suspension. Read more…

Now, my mission is to teach history through art and to make people think more critically about false narratives.

_{McMurtry, J. (2023) The consequences of teaching uncomfortable facts, IRSRG. Available at: https://irsrg.ca/articles/the-consequences-of-teaching-uncomfortable-facts/ (Accessed: 12 January 2025).}

Mr. McMurtry’s History through Art lessons, found here on our blog, are valuable for those who want to know historical truths in light of the current woke agenda.

Jim McMurtry earned a Master's degree in Educational History on Indian Educational Policy under Dr. Robert Carney, a leading expert on residential schools. He also earned a Ph.D. in Educational Philosophy from the University of Toronto, where his dissertation was entitled, A Case Against Censorship in Literature Education. Jim has had a long and successful career in education. He was Principal of Neuchâtel Junior College in Switzerland, a college lecturer, and, most recently, a senior French Immersion History teacher in Abbotsford. He was censured while teaching in Abbotsford for questioning a false narrative on residential schools. 

Mr. McMurtry publishes at jimmcmurtry.substack.com/