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The Government of Canada established [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools Residential Schools] for the children of indigenous Canadians from about 1880. [[Paul Tinari]], a Métis, attended a residential school near Montreal where he was [[circumcised]] at the age of eight by a Catholic priest and a Jewish [[mohel]]. Tinari states "thousands of young native and Métis boys were [[circumcised]] during their stays in the residential school system."<ref>{{REFnews
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Pirie (1927), in a presentation to the Canadian Society for the Study of Diseases of Children, described circumcision as "very common".<ref name="pirie1927">{{REFjournal