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LOWER POST, KASKA DENA ANCESTRAL TERRITORY, BC, April 15, 2021 /CNW/ - Together, Canada, British Columbia and Indigenous peoples are working in partnership to deliver infrastructure projects that meet the interests and needs of Indigenous communities and help advance reconciliation for the benefit of current and future generations of all people in Canada.
Today, funding to build a new multi-purpose community building in the Kaska Dena community of Lower Post and to demolish the former residential school building was announced during a virtual event attended by Deputy Chief Harlan Schilling of Daylu Dena Council, the Honourable Marc Miller, federal Minister of Indigenous Services, on behalf of the Honourable Catherine McKenna, federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable John Horgan, Premier of British Columbia. They were also joined by President Chad Norman Day of Tahltan Central Government, John D. Ward, Spokesperso
Such decisions reveal the complexities of healing and memory. Let’s support choice.
Ry Moran is the inaugural associate university librarian-reconciliation at the University of Victoria and is the former director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. SHARES Lower Post residential school has been a daily reminder of pain and suffering for residents of the community in BC’s far north.
Photo via the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.
The decision to demolish the Lower Post school one of the few remaining residential school buildings in the country is the right one for the northern B.C. village.
LOWER POST, B.C. - A building where locals pick up their mail, look for work and seek government help is a place of pain and fear for those who remember it