Searching for truth at Brantford institute ‘for the children who aren’t here today’

She taught them Mohawk languages. Now, she’s working alongside her former students in a quest to uncover the truth of a troubling past. Diane Hill, a retired teacher from Six Nations of the Grand River, was taken to the Mohawk Institute Residential School on Nov. 22, 1963, at the age of seven. She was beaten […]

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Number of burials at former Shingwauk residential school remains unclear decades later

Algoma University opened its campus to the public Friday to recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day that’s been set aside each year to honour residential school survivors, their families and those who never made it home from those institutions, which were explicitly designed to strip…

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MPP shares personal residential school experiences at Queen’s Park

Standing in the provincial legislature, MPP Sol Mamakwa shared his experiences from being born in the Sioux Lookout Indian Hospital to attending a residential school. Mamakwa, the MPP for Kiiwetinoong and NDP deputy leader, rose at Queen’s Park on Thursday and spoke for nearly eight minutes, detailing how he is a “survivor…

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‘I grieve for the ones that didn’t come home’: St. Anne’s survivor helping to search for unmarked graves

Rick Wabano was sitting in his Grade 2 classroom in Moosonee when a priest came in, took him home to pack a bag and then brought him down to the float plane dock. He and two of his younger siblings were flying further up Ontario’s James Bay Coast to the St. Anne’s Indian Residential School […]

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