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)
VANCOUVER The Royal B.C. Museum is giving some insight into what information exists in the religious archives of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Genevieve Webber is the museum’s acting head of archives and has been processing records from the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the missionary group that operated the school as part of the Catholic Church. Webber says the archives were acquired “a couple of years ago.” Previously, the records were stored in an archive run by the oblates in Vancouver. “When the oblates began to centralize their operations, they began to divest themselves of their records by donating them to appropriate public archives across the country,” Webber told CTV News Vancouver.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau carries a copy of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women report as he and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau leave the ceremonies marking the report s release, in Gatineau, Monday, June 3, 2019. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau s acceptance of an inquiry s finding that Canada committed genocide against Indigenous people could have tremendous legal impact if a court ever weighs Ottawa s responsibility for crimes against humanity, experts say. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s acceptance of an inquiry’s finding that Canada committed genocide against Indigenous people could have tremendous legal impact if a court ever weighs Ottawa’s responsibility for crimes against humanity, experts say.