A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
A decades-long court fight between survivors of abuse at a notorious Catholic-run residential school in Fort Albany, and Canada, over disclosure of evidence, appears to have ended with a March 20, 2025 decision in Ontario Superior Court. Led by former student and Fort Albany Chief, Edmund Metatawabin, the survivors of St. Anne’s had been seeking […]
This year, from April 1 to June 25, Bakaan nake’ii ngii-izhi-gakinoo’amaagoomin / We Were Taught Differently: The Indian Residential School Experience exhibition will be on display in the Welch Room of the Minden Cultural Centre. The exhibit was originally shown at the Lake of the Woods Museum in 2008. Initially, before it was shown, there were growing […]
Committee will have to cease operations when current agreement expires on March 31 An expert committee formed to help Indigenous communities find unmarked graves at former residential schools in Canada says the federal government has discontinued its funding. “It’s a betrayal,” said founding member Crystal Gail Fraser, who is Gwich’in and grew up in Inuvik, […]
‘We’re just glad it’s back’: Quilt stolen in Timmins returned The incident has inspired Quilts for Survivors to plan a wall-hanging workshop for youth. TIMMINS – A handmade quilt created to honour residential school survivors has been returned. The wall hanging, made by Katherine Jeremiah-Génier, was taken from the Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre on […]
