A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Enos (Bud) Whiteye was remembered Saturday for his extraordinary resilience and remarkable achievements. A Celebration of life was held at the Walpole Island community centre for Whiteye who died Feb. 1 at the age of 79. More than 60 friends and family remembered him as a man who overcame extreme abuse and heartache to become […]
WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools. As Canada’s federal election heats up, residential school survivors and their advocates are urging political parties to pledge full support for investigations into unmarked burials and missing children linked to the institutions. The previous Liberal government announced several initiatives following the findings of potential unmarked graves at […]
By the time she was eight, Betty Ross had been subjected to more than most children. She had been abandoned by her mother, was then adopted and cared for by a loving Indigenous family, before being kidnapped by a Catholic priest and taken to a residential school, where she endured years of beating and verbal […]
The night was mild and the March moon bright when Agnes Benn fled the Birtle Indian Residential School through the playroom window, a few weeks after she told a friend that the principal, Henry Currie, put his hand over her mouth so she wouldn’t scream in his office. Helen MacKay, the teacher on duty that […]
