A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
In some of his final words, Berna Ross’s grandfather spoke of how nice it would be to reunite with his two daughters in heaven. It’s been decades since he’d seen his daughters Alice and Rosanna Drygeese, Ross’s aunties, who went away to residential school in Fort Resolution and never came home. Ross’s mother, Mary Jane, […]
The premier, a contingent of others from the legislative assembly, the RCMP, Canadian Rangers, representatives from the Catholic and Protestant churches and a host of dignitaries from various Indigenous groups paid their respects at a ceremony Monday morning, honouring the site where a remembrance monument will be built. The monument, which is a carefully selected […]
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 […]
Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as a way to find healing, closure, and accountability, are facing the prospect of losing the largest archive of their testimonies, which is set to be destroyed next year. However, the Survivors Secretariat, a research group from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), is working to […]
