Brandon Sun By: Colin Slark Save to Read Later
A section of land, with two separate but connected histories, lies along the Assiniboine River west of 18th Street in Brandon.
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A section of land, with two separate but connected histories, lies along the Assiniboine River west of 18th Street in Brandon.
The first is not a happy history. From 1895 to 1971, those that ran the Brandon Residential School took Indigenous children from their home communities in an attempt to assimilate them into colonial society established by European settlers.
A pair of students show off their what they picked from the field at the school farm in this photo from sometime between 1913 and 1915. (SJ McKee Archives, Brandon University)