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City of Edmonton plans removal of murals depicting the residential school system from downtown LRT station edmontonjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from edmontonjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
And at the city level, while petitions calling for change grow in signatures, a working circle has been revived to decide what to do at Edmonton s Grandin/Government Centre LRT Station. Not only does the location share the Grandin name, it also features a mural – commissioned in 1989 by Francophonie Jeunesse l’Alberta and painted by Edmonton artist Sylvie Nadeau – depicting the bishop and a nun removing an Indigenous child from their family. Although it was updated in 2011 in an attempt to add context, that is what it still lacks 10 years later, says one Edmontonian. For the Francophone community, obviously, Bishop Grandin was this really great guy, but I don t think even to them they really knew what was happening. Because even today, we don’t know the full extent of what happened in these schools, Jade Balona told CTV News Edmonton. ....
EDMONTON Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson wants the city to rename Grandin LRT station and cover the mural inside it as soon as possible. The LRT station is named after Vital Grandin, a Roman Catholic Bishop from St. Albert who helped design Canada s residential school system. The widely circulated quotes from Grandin about what the objects of the school were, which very clearly were to dispossess Indigenous families of their children and dispossess those children of their language, of their culture, of their spirituality, and in at least 215 cases that are new to us, their lives, Iveson said Thursday. That wasn t the intent directly, but that was the consequence. ....
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