A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
On Thursday, April 23, several United Church of Canada staff and participants visited the former site of the Mohawk Institute Residential School. The site opened as a museum last year by the Woodland Cultural Centre, which is located next door in Brantford, Ontario. The group of 60 included staff from The United Church of Canada’s […]
A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027. “It just made me feel like we should be doing whatever we can to preserve as many survivor accounts as we possibly can,” said Walker, who is […]
Starting in 1831 and as recently as 1996, Canada’s residential school system forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, subjecting them to malnourishment and physical and sexual abuse in what the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called “cultural genocide.” Read more on Reuters.com
A First Nations health analyst in Saskatchewan is sharing the story of a woman who as a child spent eight months in the basement of Holy Family Hospital in Prince Albert in a segregated ward-in the hope others will come forward. Brenda Robertson works in the First Nations Health Ombudsperson’s office in Saskatoon and says […]
