A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
CHAPLEAU – Members of three First Nations are working together to investigate the grounds of the former St. John’s Residential School. From Aug. 1 to 3, historic human remains detection dogs (HHRDD) will comb through heavily overgrown areas near the site slightly southeast of Chapleau. The search is part of an ongoing initiative led by […]
WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools. As Tofino provincial court Judge Alexander Wolf sentenced a man to jail for assaulting his girlfriend while intoxicated, he made sure to acknowledge the man’s intergenerational trauma. His father and grandfather were residential school survivors, and many of his family members have struggled with alcohol […]
A 56-year-old adopted B.C. man, who tracked down his biological father two years ago, discovered he had been born as a result of sexual assault at a residential school in Alert Bay. Now he and his father, 72, are suing the Anglican Church for damages, including for the son’s loss of knowledge of his Indigenous […]
THUNDER BAY — Fort William Chief Michele Solomon and Anishinabek Nation Northern Superior Regional Chief Melvin Hardy stressed the importance of recognizing Survivors during Thunder Bay’s Indigenous Survivors Day Proclamation Signing and Flag Raising ceremony at City Hall on June 30. The proclamation to recognize Indigenous Survivors Day stemmed from a request by Troy Abromaitis, […]
