‘People have to know’: Children’s book focuses on residential school experience

September 30, 2023

It started with a napkin. Mission Public School District Indigenous Mentor teacher Peggy Janicki and her brother were visiting their mother, Mary O’Connal, at the hospital. O’Connal was a survivor of Lejac Residential School in Fort Saint James and was at Abbotsford Hospital with a broken hip. While workers were taking…